Surgeons to operate in zero-gravity
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A team of French doctors will operate on a man under near-weightless conditions on Wednesday &#151; a world first and what they hope will be a step toward performing surgery in space.
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Astronauts spend years training before they can lift off into space. They learn to operate shuttles, perform experiments in zero-gravity, and eat bugs if they must.
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Space suits for astronauts may get a new and better design following a University of Houston doctoral student's locomotion stability research.
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NASA scientists credit space technology for helping physicians diagnose and treat hardening of the arteries before it causes heart attacks or strokes.
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CAMBRIDGE,  Mass. -- Future explorers on the Moon and Mars could be  outfitted in lightweight, high-tech spacesuits that offer far more flexibility  than the bulky suits that have been used for spacewalks in the 1960s.
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KOROLYOV, Russia -- A U.S. astronaut and his Ru
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Dr. Michael R. Treat is hard at work on an invention he hopes will change the way surgeons work in the operating room - an automated helping hand.
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French doctors prepare to carry out the first operation on a human in "weightless" conditions aboard an aircraft.
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A company plans to offer airplane flights that simulate weightlessness in space. Zero Gravity Corp. starting Oct. 9 will offer twice-a-month, $2,950 flights on planes that carry 27 passengers
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Â· Moscow 'space flight' to simulate mission to Mars Â· Britons seek places in cramped static cabin
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Una astronauta restera' sul laboratorio orbitante
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Richard Branson, Britain&#39;s best-known entrepreneur and part-time daredevil, plans to launch the world&#39;s first passenger service to space in 2007, offering zero-gravity flights for 110,000 pounds ($198,600).
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Operation gives Chinese man with 15kg tumour hope of leading a normal life
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China has developed a light and removable spacesuit for its astronauts set to embark on China&#39;s second manned space mission scheduled for next September.
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A plane carrying a team of doctors and a patient for pioneering zero-gravity surgery landed Wednesday after the flight, although officials did not immediately disclose any information about the procedure.
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Space travel, education consultant Marie &quot;Mel&quot; Moreau says, is more than going up. &quot;Astronauts could not go up in space without people wanting to work as ground crew,&quot; she said. &quot;Proper communication is vitally important.
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MERIGNAC, France -- Braving queasy stomachs, a team of French doctors took to the skies yesterday for the first operation on a human being in zero-gravity conditions, removing a cyst from the arm of a man as the aircraft soared and dived to create weightlessness.