To: Ben Dover
16 posted on
03/18/2024 9:04:57 AM PDT by
GreenLanternCorps
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To: GreenLanternCorps
Holy crap, that's Deke Slayton! WWII badass (56 combat sorties), original Mercury guy disqualified for irregular heart-beat, worked his way through NASA and rebuilt himself to eventually become the oldest astronaut at that time (51).
He went to the stars in 1993 from a brain tumor.
21 posted on
03/18/2024 12:40:14 PM PDT by
MikelTackNailer
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To: GreenLanternCorps; Ben Dover
Back in the day I got to work at NASA with Vance Brand’s daughter Susan, life sciences, she is so smart and nice.
I never got to meet her Dad, who is in the middle of the photo you posted.
That hookup was a great thing as part of a path to better times with the USSR. Great photo.
RIP Tom Stafford.
22 posted on
03/18/2024 2:24:42 PM PDT by
Weirdad
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