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Deke Slayton's Life And Accomplishments

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Deke Slayton was an amazing astronaut as well as a former pilot in the American Air Force, an aeronautical engineer and the first Chief of the Astronaut Office for NASA. His most famous mission was when he was chosen to join the Mercury Seven astronaut crew. One of his other acheivements included being the oldest person to travel in space at the time at the age of 51. Despite all his successes, there were a few setbacks in his life that almost prevented him from accomplishing his goals. In his childhood, his left ring finger got cut off because of an farm equipment accident. Even more challenging, when he was about to fly out on his first mission he couldn't pass the test to fly because of his heart problems. I too have faced a lot of
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