Omega celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Speedmaster receiving NASA Flight Qualified status ✓ See special watches from ...

On the morning of May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard crawled into the cramped Mercury capsule, "Freedom 7," at Launch ...

Please RSVP to [email protected]. In lieu of flowers or gifts, the family requests donations be made to the Deke Slayton Space Museum, Sparta, WI attention: Alyssa Young alyssa.young@ ...

April 28 marks the day Dennis Tito, a millionaire businessman from the US, became the world’s first space tourist in 2001. He ...

However, Deke Slayton was dropped due to a heart problem, although he continued to contribute to the space program until 1975, when he finally flew on the Apollo-Soyuz mission. The Mercury capsule ...

"Gus" Grissom, Walter M. "Wally" Schirra, Alan B. Shepard and Donald K. "Deke" Slayton -- were selected from a group of 32 candidates to take part in Project Mercury. In 1963, by an act of the U.S ...

In 1959, NASA introduced the “Mercury Seven,” its first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald “Deke” Slayton.

Ragan. For the last two Mercury missions, the astronauts had worn their own watches. Deke Slayton, then chief of the astronaut office, knew they would need timepieces certified to be able to ...

Ralph Thoren worried, as the planes rumbled over his neighborhood as a part of the annual Deke Slayton Airfest, about the risk of another crash. Would the airport use PFAS to extinguish it again?

When the programme ended in 1963, the NASA astronauts approached their Operations Director, Deke Slayton, and asked to be issued with a reliable watch for future missions. The watches were required as ...

The wives of Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton had no idea what was about to happen… but who were these women? Photo By Ira Gay ...