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Cooper nearly lost his chance to go into orbit when he became enraged at the decision last year to ground Astronaut Donald K. ("Deke") Slayton because of a reported heart flutter. Cooper offended high NASA officials by vehemently protesting the decision, threatened to quit if Slayton were not reinstated. He was persuaded not to 'bail out of the program by Astronaut Walter Schirra, who made the near-perfect six-orbit flight in October...
With deep regret, NASA Project Mercury Boss Robert Gilruth announced that he was clipping the wings of one of his astronauts. Because of an "erratic heartbeat," Air Force Captain Donald ("Deke") Slayton, 38, was no longer eligible for a solo ride into space. The doughty Deke will be reassigned to "operational and planning" duties on the ground, though he might take a ride on a rocket as second or third man in future Gemini and Apollo shots...
...Deke") Slayton blasted off last week with the roar of a soaring Atlas. ''We have only begun to fight," he wrote to the chamber of commerce of his home town, Sparta, Wis. ''We have lost a skirmish, but the battle is not yet over...
March 23). "I feel the situation developed through ignorance of the problem and resulting panic." said Deke to Sparta's Mayor Ralph Osborne...
Scrubbed as pilot of the U.S.'s next orbital shot because of "erratic heartbeat" was Astronaut Donald ("Deke") Slayton, 38. Aware of his condition since 1959 and subject to fortnightly recurrences ("I get rid of them by running two or three miles"), the tenacious Air Force major was belatedly-and perhaps only temporarily-grounded by an Air Force medical board last week. The decision was clearly motivated more by fear of bad publicity if Slayton's flight should go amiss than by doubts over his capacity, and understandably left the astronaut "damned disappointed." Sympathized his replacement, Navy Lieut...