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Topic: Remembering Deke Slayton on his birthday (3/1)
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icarkie
Member Posts: 618
From: BURTON ON TRENT /England
Registered: Nov 2002
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posted 03-01-2012 12:52 PM
   
Just letting you all know it would have been Deke's birthday today (88). Sure wish I had the chance to have met him... he had the Right Stuff.
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crash
Member Posts: 318
From: West Sussex, England
Registered: Jan 2011
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posted 03-01-2012 12:52 PM
Well said, and hear hear! |
KSCartist
Member Posts: 2896
From: Titusville, FL USA
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 03-01-2012 04:03 PM
I had the pleasure to meet him in 1992. You're right. He was a true hero and we were fortunate to have a man like him play the role he did. |
Delta7
Member Posts: 1505
From: Bluffton IN USA
Registered: Oct 2007
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posted 03-01-2012 04:25 PM
Met him in the 1980s. Nice guy, very gracious to make time for a starry-eyed young fan. |
Nigel Mc
Member Posts: 182
From: Sheffield, UK
Registered: Jan 2011
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posted 03-06-2012 07:11 AM
I realise, that I have never heard Deke Slayton actually talk. Are there any videos online? |
HistorianMom
Member Posts: 105
From: Columbia, Missouri USA
Registered: Nov 2010
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posted 03-06-2012 09:19 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Nigel Mc:
Are there any videos online?
The first press conference announcing the Mercury Seven Astronauts, with brief comments from each of the seven, is here. |
Paul23
Member Posts: 836
From: South East, UK
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 03-07-2012 02:00 PM
Someone I would have loved to meet, a true legend of spaceflight. |
Cunumdrum61
Member Posts: 38
From: Australia
Registered: Jan 2012
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posted 03-07-2012 03:48 PM
A truly great and gracious man to talk to. One of the best and he had the “Right Stuff” no doubt about that. |
Apollo-Soyuz
Member Posts: 1205
From: Shady Side, Md
Registered: Sep 2004
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posted 03-07-2012 07:38 PM
As a tribute to Deke, here is a scan of a cover he autographed as Manager of the Approach and Landing Tests of Shuttle Enterprise.  ------------------
John Macco
Space Unit #1457 |
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