Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Doctors Have Performed First Zero Gravity Surgery

French doctors carried out the world's first ever operation on a human in zero gravity today, using a specially adapted aircraft to simulate conditions in space.During a 3-hour flight from Bordeaux in southwest France, the team of surgeons and anaesthetists successfully removed a benign tumour from the forearm of a 46-year-old volunteer.

You can read more about it here.

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