This made me tear up.

"World famous astronaut Deke Slayton, crew member of the 1975 US-USSR Apollo-Soyuz mission, one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts, and an avid Formula 1 racing pilot died at his home in Texas at 3:22 A.M. on June 13,1993.

Later that same day at 7:58 A.M. local time, at the John Wayne Airport in California a Formula One racing plane with large FAA required numbers on the fuselage (N21X), took off from the airport and performed various flight maneuvers. With a high speed racing propeller the extremely noisy racer was seen and heard by many people who clearly identified the aircraft type and wrote down the N21X registration. The FAA determined that the noise level mandated by law had been exceeded.

On July 20th Bobbie Slayton (Deke’s wife) received a letter from the FAA to Donald K. Slayton, notifying him of the violation.

Bobbie contacted the FAA, pointing out that Deke had been dead for 6 hours before the incident. She further added that N21X had been donated to a racing museum in Sparks Nevada several months earlier, and that before being displayed, the racer’s engine was removed.

Bobbie remarked that it probably took Deke 6 hours to find Gus Grissom to prop the plane for him.