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Deke Slayton

1924 - 1993

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Donald Kent "Deke" Slayton (March 1, 1924 – June 13, 1993) was an American Air Force pilot, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts. He went on to become NASA's first Chief of the Astronaut Office and Director of Flight Crew Operations, responsible for NASA crew assignments. Slayton joined the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II, and flew in Europe and the Pacific. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Deke Slayton has received more than 2,634,103 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Deke Slayton is the 100th most popular astronaut (down from 80th in 2019), the 3,938th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,494th in 2019) and the 44th most popular American Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Deke Slayton ranks 100 out of 556. Before him are Aleksandr Serebrov, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Yang Liwei, Anatoly Berezovoy, Valery Ryumin, and Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov. After him are Dirk Frimout, Scott Carpenter, Pyotr Klimuk, Vladimir Lyakhov, Georgy Grechko, and Lev Dyomin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Deke Slayton ranks 198. Before him are Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, Marc Ferro, Nina Foch, Alain Bombard, José Donoso, and S. R. Nathan. After him are Antoine Cuissard, Patricia Kennedy Lawford, Pierre Sinibaldi, Nina Bocharova, Jaime Lusinchi, and Genichi Taguchi. Among people deceased in 1993, Deke Slayton ranks 116. Before him are Elvira Popescu, Sebastiano Baggio, Elmar Klos, William Berger, Anšlavs Eglītis, and Yulian Semyonov. After him are Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, Freya Stark, Buddhadasa, Blaže Koneski, Wang Zhen, and David Koresh.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Deke Slayton ranks 3,938 out of 20,380. Before him are Chris Gardner (1954), Horace Mann (1796), Lauren Holly (1963), Mike Love (1941), Sable (1967), and Dabney Coleman (1932). After him are Steve Berry (1955), Frank Sinatra Jr. (1944), Robert Bilott (1965), Henrietta Szold (1860), Ada Blackjack (1898), and Arnold Palmer (1929).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Deke Slayton ranks 44. Before him are James McDivitt (1929), Donn F. Eisele (1930), Dick Scobee (1939), Alfred Worden (1932), Stuart Roosa (1933), and Kathryn D. Sullivan (1951). After him are Scott Carpenter (1925), Gregory Jarvis (1944), Joseph A. Walker (1921), Jeffrey A. Hoffman (1944), Vance D. Brand (1931), and Sunita Williams (1965).

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