[DOC] [TLE] Deke Slayton - Wikipedia [PAR] Donald Kent Slayton (March 1, 1924  June 13, 1993), (Major, USAF), better 
known as Deke ... At that time he was granted medical clearance to fly, and was 
assigned as the ... Slayton was scheduled to fly in May 1962 on the program's 
second orbital flight ... When NASA grounded Slayton, the Air Force followed suit. [DOC] [TLE] Deke Slayton Biography: Mercury Astronaut Who ... - Space.com [PAR] Jan 30, 2014 ... Deke Slayton was selected for the Mercury program, but had to wait more than a 
decade ... Because of a heart condition, he was grounded for decades before 
being ... Office in 1962 and in 1966, was director of flight crew operations. ... The 
Apollo crew launched into space on July 15, 1975, and spent nine... [DOC] [TLE] The Apollo-Soyuz Mission | NASA [PAR] Soyuz 19 launched July 15, 1975, at 8:20 a.m. EDT, carrying cosmonauts Alexey 
... Hours later, Apollo followed, lifting off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 3:
50 ... Flight Crew: Thomas P. Stafford, Vance D. Brand, Donald K. Slayton ... 30 
years the program's six spacecraft carried people into orbit repeatedly, launched,
... [DOC] [TLE] New Exhibit Features Unique Diamond Astronaut Pin | The Museum ... [PAR] 28, 2012--A new exhibit honoring NASA astronaut Donald "Deke" Slayton ... 
Slayton was grounded from spaceflight for medical reasons just before he was to 
become ... weeks when it went to the Moon with Apollo 11 at the request of Neil 
Armstrong. The pin is legendary in the history of the NASA manned space 
program. [DOC] [TLE] Deke Slayton  Nothing in Particular Blog [PAR] May 20, 2013 ... Deke Slayton's family owned a farm only a mile north of Leon, Wisconsin .... With 
Sputnik, the American space program began getting into high gear ... They went 
to Lovelace Clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the extensive medical tests. 
.... Finally, NASA heads announced that they would go with LOR. [DOC] [TLE] Scott Carpenter, Second American to Orbit the Earth, Dies at 88 ... [PAR] Oct 11, 2013 ... Donald Deke Slayton was originally scheduled for the second ... 30 years and 
finally made his one, long-delayed space flight at the age of 51, when a medical 
clearance allowed him to take part in the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Project. ... three 
times during the nearly 5-hour mission, which did not go smoothly. [DOC] [TLE] collectSPACE  news  "'I worked with NASA, not for NASA ... [PAR] Feb 22, 2002 ... You just want a dummy to get into a capsule on top of a rocket  I'm not .... We 
finally did adapt." ... He has described test piloting and the space program as the 
... "Deke Slayton was the best diver we had  he went right to the bottom! .... to 
allow Deke Slayton, who was grounded with a medical condition,... [DOC] [TLE] Astronaut and Cosmonaut Medical Histories - Doctor Zebra [PAR] The legend further states that a hold was introduced into the count-down while ... 
During his medical examination for the astronaut program, "the doctors found that 
.... Atrial fibrillation kept Slayton out of space for more than 10 years. ... USA, 1962 
... Stafford eat the eye from a ram's head at a dinner in the Soviet Union, 1975. [DOC] [TLE] Astronauts facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ... [PAR] Sixteen years later, Slayton finally got his chance to go into space when he was 
... Nine more astronauts were selected in September 1962. ... or equivalent 
experience in the natural sciences, medicine, or engineering. ... The first group of 
astronaut candidates for the new space shuttle program was selected in January 
1978. [DOC] [TLE] Deke Slayton Studies Russian and Dreams of Space - The New ... [PAR] Apr 27, 1972 ... Deke Slayton Studies Russian and Dreams of Space ... He was grounded 
because of an abnormal heart rhythm that doctors first detected ... Once people 
finally decided space flight was here to stay, I

Question: Deke Slayton, grounded from this program in 1962 for medical reasons, finally went into space in 1975
Answer: the Mercury program