Astronaut NASA - Space Shuttle - DANIEL BRANDENSTEIN - Signed To DEKE SLAYTON

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*You will be enthralled and proud to have this piece in your collection! * Extremely Rare ! Astronaut Owned! Signed From Astronaut To Astronaut! Owned by one of the Original Seven - The Mercury Seven Astronaut Deke Slayton! ONE OF A KIND - This was signed to Deke Slayton and owned by Deke Slayton. This piece came from a group of Deke Slayton retirement photo's. I am keeping most of them for my private collection, but I am sharing a few to those serious collector's out there. If there ever was a "one of a kind" space collectible this auction here most certainly qualifies! Upon retirement from NASA, the early Space Shuttle flyers who Deke Slayton worked with gave him signed and in most cases inscribed photographs of themselves. This is one of them. If you collect space collectibles .... you need no introduction to who Deke Slayton was !!! However, I have included some Wikipedia info below. This Auction is for- Space Shuttle Astronaut - DANIEL C. BRANDENSTEIN - " Deke - Best Wishes For The Future" Signed Dan Brandenstein. Comes with PSA/DNA COA. Fine Condition. These were in Deke Slayton's personal collection album and there is slight evidence on the backside of having been in an album for 20+ years, but nothing of any serious nature. FINE CONDITION Overall, and really, priceless! Deke Slayton From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Deke Slayton NASA Astronaut Nationality American Born March 1, 1924 Sparta, Wisconsin Died June 13, 1993 (aged 69) League City , Texas Other occupation Bomber pilot ; Test pilot Rank Major , USAF Time in space 9d 01h 28m Selection 1959 NASA Group Missions Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Mission insignia Donald Kent Slayton (March 1, 1924 – June 13, 1993), better known as Deke Slayton , was an American World War II pilot, one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts , and a NASA administrator. [1 ]After joining NASA, Slayton was selected to pilot the second U.S. manned orbital spaceflight, but was grounded in 1962 by a heart murmur . He then served as NASA's director of flight crew operations, making him responsible for crew assignments at NASA from November 1963 until March 1972. At that time he was granted medical clearance to fly, and was assigned as the docking module pilot of the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project , becoming the oldest person to fly in space at age 51. This record was surpassed in 1983 by 53 year old John Young and in 1998 by his fellow Project Mercury astronaut John Glenn , who at the age of 77 flew on space shuttle mission STS-95 . Contents [ hide ] 1 Biography 1.1 Early life and education 1.2 Mercury Seven 1.3 Gemini and Apollo selection 1.4 Apollo-Soyuz flight 1.5 Retirement 2 Personal life 3 Legacy 4 In media 5 See also 6 Books authored 7 References 8 External links [edit ]Biography [edit ]Early life and education Slayton was born on a farm near Sparta, Wisconsin . A childhood farm equipment accident left him with a severed left ring finger. He attended elementary school in Leon, Wisconsin and graduated from Sparta High School.He entered the United States Army Air Forces as a cadet in 1942, training as a B-25 bomber pilot. He flew 56 combat missions with the 340th Bombardment Group over Europe during World War II and later flew seven combat missions over Japan in a Douglas A-26 Invader as part of the 319th Bombardment Group.After the war, Slayton earned a bachelor of science degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Minnesota .Slayton became a test pilot at Edwards AFB in California. He tested supersonic Air Force fighters, including the F-101 , F-102 , F-105 , and F-106 ,[ 2] and was responsible for determining stall-spin characteristics for the large F-105 , which became the principal fighter bomber used by the USAF over North Vietnam .[ 3] [edit ]Mercury Seven Slayton was chosen as one of the original seven American astronauts in 1959. He was scheduled to fly in 1962 on the second orbital flight (to have been named Delta 7 , the name coming from the mission being the... read more

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