Apollo Era NASA Name Tag, Worn & Flown in Zero-G Training Astronaut Deke Slayton

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This listing is for a black leather name tag, which was worn by Deke Slayton during his training for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. He wore this patch onboard
NASA's KC-135 "Vomit Comet" -
a modified Boeing 707 that would fly to great heights, then drop down for miles, leaving the passengers in a zero-gravity environment for short periods of time. After the flights, several astronauts gave their name tags as souvenirs to the NASA engineer who helped with the training. I bought a stack of patches from this employee, including the one here. These were authenticated and sold to me via Heritage Auctions in their latest space auction.
(Please note that this tag incorrectly lists his name as "DK Slaton", not "DK Slayton". This is not the first tag Heritage has offered with a misspelled name. It would seem that the NASA employee who made these accidentally gave him a stack with the name spelled wrong, and he decided to just use them instead of wasting them.)
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