Name: Slayton, Donald "Deke" Country: USA M/F: M Number of Flights: 1

Space Flights Launch Date - Rocket No. Landing Date - Rocket No.
1. Apollo ASTP
(Apollo "18")
July 15, 1975 - AS-210 July 24, 1975 - AS-210

Space Flights Descriptions
Mercury-Redstone 5
(Cancelled)
Proposed Backup Crew
Each of the Mercury 7 astronauts was supposed to a fly a suborbital flight under the original Mercury project plan before the orbital Atlas flights. Additional suborbital flights were cancelled in August 1961.
Mercury-Redstone 6
(Cancelled)
Proposed Prime Crew
Donald Slayton would have flown the 4th suborbital flight It was cancelled in early July 1961.
Delta 7
(Mercury-Atlas 7)
(Cancelled)
Proposed Prime Crew
Donald Slayton would have been the second American in orbit. He was replaced by Scott Carpenter due to a medical problem. Delta 7 would have been a three orbit space flight, and the spacecraft was renamed Aurora 7.
1. Apollo ASTP Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
Apollo spacecraft (CSM-111) docked with Soyuz 19 from July 17, 1975 to July 19, 1975

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Updated - June 10, 2006