518, was renamed Deke Slayton Highway. The Deke Slayton Memorial Space & Bicycle Museum in Sparta, Wisconsin was named in his honor. The Slayton biographical exhibit includes his Mercury space suit, his Ambassador of Exploration Award, which showcases a lunar sample, and more. In nearby La Crosse, Wisconsin, an annual summer aircraft air show, the Deke Slayton Airfest, has been held in his honor, featuring modern and vintage military and civilian aircraft, along with NASA speakers. The Cygnus CRS Orb-3 mission, which was lost when the Antares rocket exploded during its launch, was named the S.S. Deke Slayton. The Cygnus CRS Orb-4 Orbital ATK space vehicle was named the S.S. Deke Slayton II and launched to the International Space Station on December 6, 2015, on an Atlas V rocket. In 2017, Solstar and NASA developed a preliminary design for Slayton Space Communicator (SC-Slayton), a commercial router on the International Space Station named in his honor. The device is intended for low-earth orbit service (LEO). In media 1983 film The Right Stuff – played by Scott Paulin 1995 film Apollo 13 – played by Chris Ellis 1996 TV movie Apollo 11 – played by Jack Conley 1998 TV miniseries From the Earth to the Moon – played by Nick Searcy 2009 TV movie Moonshot – played by Nigel Whitmey 2015 TV series The Astronaut Wives Club – played by Kenneth Mitchell 2016 film Hidden Figures – played by Evan Holtzman 2018 film First Man – played by Kyle Chandler 2019 TV series For All Mankind – played by Chris Bauer 2020 Disney+/National Geographic miniseries The Right Stuff - played by Micah Stock See also Apollo–Soyuz Commemorative stamp List of brain tumor patients Notes References External links Deke Slayton Airfest Astronautix biography of Deke Slayton Spacefacts biography of Deke Slayton 1924 births 1975 in spaceflight 1993 deaths Air Command and Staff College alumni American aerospace engineers American autobiographers Military personnel from Wisconsin American people of English descent American people of Norwegian descent American test pilots Aviators from Wisconsin Deaths from brain cancer in the United States Collier Trophy recipients Mercury Seven Apollo–Soyuz Test Project NASA civilian astronauts NASA people National Aviation Hall of Fame inductees People from Sparta, Wisconsin Recipients of the Air Medal Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United States) Recipients of the NASA Distinguished Service Medal Recipients of the NASA Exceptional Service Medal U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School