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Monthly price chart and freely downloadable data for Rice. Price in US Dollars per Metric Ton. Bomber pilot, test pilot. Molten Wow Hack Forum. University of Minnesota, B. S. 1. 94. 9Rank. Major, USAFTime in space. Selection. 19. 59 NASA Group 1. Missions. ApolloSoyuz Test Project. Mission insignia. Retirement. February 2. Awards. Collier Trophy. James H. Doolittle Award. Donald Kent Deke Slayton March 1, 1. June 1. 3, 1. 99. Major, USAF was an American World War IIpilot, aeronautical engineer, test pilot who was selected as one of the original NASAMercury Sevenastronauts, and became NASAs first Chief of the Astronaut Office. After joining NASA, Slayton was selected to pilot the second U. S. manned orbital spaceflight, but was grounded in 1. He then served as NASAs Director of Flight Crew Operations, making him responsible for crew assignments at NASA from November 1. March 1. 97. 2. At that time he was granted medical clearance to fly, and was assigned as the docking module pilot of the 1. ApolloSoyuz Test Project, at age 5. This record was surpassed in 1. John Young and in 1. Slaytons fellow Project Mercury astronaut John Glenn, who at the age of 7. Space Shuttle mission STS 9. Slayton died at the age of 6. D7FC58E7A3642727D8139B8B2DDC70B0CAA4BE/?interpolation=lanczos-none&output-format=jpeg&output-quality=95&fit=inside 512:*' alt='Historical Plausibility Project' title='Historical Plausibility Project' />June 1. BiographyeditEarly life, education and military serviceeditSlayton was born on March 1, 1. Sparta, Wisconsin, to parents Charles Sherman Slayton 1. Victoria Adelia Slayton ne Larson 1. He was of English and Norwegian descent. In 1. 92. 9, a childhood farm equipment accident left him with a severed left ring finger. He attended elementary school in Leon, Wisconsin, and graduated from Sparta High School in 1. He entered the United States Army Air Forces as a cadet in 1. B 2. 5 bomber pilot and received his wings in April 1. Class 4. 3E after completing flight training at Vernon and Waco, Texas. He flew 5. 6 combat missions with the 3. Bombardment Group over Europe during World War II and later flew seven combat missions over Japan in a Douglas A 2. Invader as part of the 3. Bombardment Group. In the meantime, he returned to the United States in mid 1. B 2. 5 instructor pilot at Columbia, South Carolina, and later served with a unit responsible for checking pilot proficiency on the A 2. Slayton served again as a B 2. After the war, Slayton graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, in 1. Following graduation, he worked for two years as an engineer with the Boeing Aircraft Corporation at Seattle, Washington before being recalled to active duty in 1. Minnesota Air National Guard. Upon reporting for duty, Slayton was a maintenance flight test officer of an F 5. Hearts Of Iron 3 Historical Plausibility Project' title='Hearts Of Iron 3 Historical Plausibility Project' />Minneapolis, then served eighteen months as a technical inspector at Headquarters Twelfth Air Force in Wiesbaden Army Airfield, West Germany, and a tour as fighter pilot and maintenance officer with the 3. Fighter Day Wing at Bitburg Air Base, West Germany. He graduated from the Squadron Officer School at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama in 1. Air Command and Staff College. The-Treasure-Fleet0328142077.jpg' alt='Historical Plausibility Project' title='Historical Plausibility Project' />Returning to the United States in June 1. Slayton attended and graduated from U. S. Air Force Test Pilot School Class 5. C to become a test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base in California. He tested supersonic Air Force fighters, including the F 1. F 1. 02, F 1. 05, and F 1. F 1. 05, which became the principal fighter bomber used by the Air Force over North Vietnam. In his Air Force career, he logged 7,1. NASA careereditMercury Sevenedit. Deke Slayton sitting front row, left with fellow Mercury astronauts. In 1. 95. 9, Slayton was one of 1. National Aeronautics and Space Administrations Project Mercury, the first U. S. manned space flight program. Following a gruelling series of physical and psychological tests, NASA selected Slayton to be one of the original group of seven Mercury astronauts. During the summer of 1. Slayton was diagnosed with an erratic heart rate idiopathicatrial fibrillation. Despite his best efforts to overcome this condition, including exercise and lifestyle changes, none of it had any effect. Slayton was scheduled to fly in May 1. Mercury Atlas 7, which he would have named Delta 7 after the fourth letter in the Greek alphabet since this was the fourth manned Mercury flight, and 7 designating the seven astronauts, but because of uncertainty over his heart condition, the flight was given to Scott Carpenter instead and Slayton was grounded from flights completely the following September. He ended up as the only one of the Mercury Seven to not fly a Mercury mission. Gemini and Apollo crew selectioneditWhen NASA grounded Slayton, the Air Force followed suit. From September 1, 1. November 1. 96. 3, he obtained the unofficial title of chief astronaut when he was assigned as Coordinator of Astronaut Activities, a position later re designated as Chief of the Astronaut Office. Despite forfeiting a pension that he would have earned following twenty combined years of active duty, Air Guard and Reserve service in 1. Slayton resigned his Air Force commission in 1. NASA in a civilian executive capacity, first as Assistant Director of Flight Crew Operations until 1. Director of Flight Crew Operations. As Director, he oversaw the activities of the astronaut office managed by Chief of the Astronaut Office Alan Shepard, also grounded due to Mnires disease, the aircraft operations office, the flight crew integration division, the crew training and simulation division, and the crew procedures division. He had the decisive role in choosing the crews for the Gemini and Apollo programs, including the decision of who would be the first person on the Moon. In 1. 97. 2, Slayton was awarded the Society of Experimental Test Pilots. James H. Doolittle Award. Restored to full flight statuseditWhile grounded, Slayton took several measures to attempt to be restored to flight status, including a daily exercise program, quitting cigarette smoking and coffee, and drastically reducing consumption of alcoholic beverages. He also took massive doses of vitamins, and for a time took daily doses of quinidine, a crystalline alkaloid. In July 1. 97. 0, the fibrillation ceased, and a comprehensive review of his medical status by NASAs director of life sciences and the Federal Aviation Agency resulted in the full restoration of his flight status in March 1. Slayton celebrated with an hour of aerobatic maneuvers in a NASA T 3. ApolloSoyuz flighteditAfter he was restored to flight status, Slayton was selected in February 1. ApolloSoyuz Test Project, a docking between an American Apollo spacecraft and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft. The American crew immediately began an intensive two year training program, which included learning the Russian language and making frequent trips to the USSR, where astronauts trained for weeks at Star City, the cosmonaut training center near Moscow. Slayton resigned as Director of Flight Crew Operations in February 1. On July 1. 7, 1. 97. Slayton, Thomas P. Stafford and Vance D. Brand conducted crew transfers with cosmonauts Alexey Leonov and Valeri Kubasov. At the end of the flight, an erroneous switch setting led to noxious nitrogen tetroxide fumes from the command modules RCS thrusters being sucked into the cabin during landing, and the crew was hospitalized as a precaution in Honolulu, Hawaii, for two weeks.