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icarkie Member Posts: 618 From: BURTON ON TRENT /England Registered: Nov 2002	posted 11-28-2002 02:24 PM Hi Could anyone tell me if there was any individual lithos taken of DEKE SLAYTON in his mercury space suit.I've seen the classic (right stuff)group photo which I have,and I know he didn't go in space till the ASTP flight in the 70's.Its more curiosity than anything.
randy Member Posts: 2176 From: West Jordan, Utah USA Registered: Dec 1999	posted 11-28-2002 10:37 PM The only individual one of Deke that I remember for sure is in a business suit. There might have been one in a WSS for ASTP.
icarkie Member Posts: 618 From: BURTON ON TRENT /England Registered: Nov 2002	posted 11-28-2002 10:53 PM Thanks Randy I thought the pic in the business suit was the only individual one that I had seen in his Mercury days.icarkie
albatron@aol.com New Member Posts: From: Registered:	posted 11-28-2002 11:43 PM Ive SEEN a Deke MSS pic, but only one in a million years. No clue how to find one either. So it does exist.
heng44 Member Posts: 3386 From: Netherlands Registered: Nov 2001	posted 11-29-2002 05:58 AM No litho, but I have a photo of Slayton during a Mercury suit fitting session where he holds his helmet in a sort of Hamlet pose. Ed Hengeveld

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