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[i]Although rare in highly fit 35-year-olds like Slayton, the condition [atrial fibrillation] was not initially viewed as an impediment to his career as an astronaut or pilot. The matter was dropped. But as flight assignments were made and announced in 1961 and 1962, a member of the internal medicine staff at Brooks A.F.B. wrote a letter to NASA administrator James Webb. His recommendation: 'Slayton should not be assigned a flight.'[/i]
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