Deke! U.S. Manned Space: From Mercury to the Shuttle by Michael Cassutt, Donald K. Slayton

Deke! U.S. Manned Space: From Mercury to the Shuttle

Michael Cassutt, Donald K. Slayton

352 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous informative slow-paced
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Deke Slayton was one of the first seven Mercury astronauts--and he might have been the first American in space. Instead, he became the first chief of American Astronaut Corps. It was Deke Slayton who selected the crews who flew the Gemini, Apollo,...

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