Politico February 22, 2024
A laboratory floating 250 miles above Earth is opening new frontiers in health care.
So says NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, who joined astronauts this week on the International Space Station via video link to share updates on experiments performed in the great beyond — and to shed light on what they might do for us on our planet.
What’s new? Doctors may soon be able to perform surgeries on the space station using remote-controlled robots.
Last week, surgeons at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln directed a robot to grasp, pull and cut a series of rubber bands in a simulated surgical setting. Even with the signal travel delays that accompany Earth-to-space communication, the procedure was successful.
The robots portend a future...
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