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06-19-2017, 03:14 PM
Medtronic’s Tiny Micra Pacemaker Going on a Space Flight
https://www.medgadget.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Micra-to-space-300x230.jpghttps://www.medgadget.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/micra-device.jpg These days astronauts are some of the healthiest and physically robust individuals that NASA can get a hold of. But one day we may see all kinds of people going to space, even those with heart conditions. Shelbi Klings****, a Nebraska high school student had the idea to test whether an existing pacemaker is able to handle the vibrations, radiation, and weightlessness of space to get a sense of*whether pacemakers have a future in the final frontier.
https://www.medgadget.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Micra-small-small.jpgMedtronic‘s Micra pacemaker is so small that it*fits inside the heart and is delivered in a minimally invasive fashion. Conveniently, it is also small e**ugh to fit inside a 4 cm square box that’s a standard size of the Cubes in Space (http://www.cubesinspace.com/) project. Cubes in Space relies on NASA sounding rockets to deliver a bunch of small high school experiments into space for a few minutes, but*without putting them into orbit. The rocket flies in a parabolic trajectory and the flight lasts only about ten minutes. Nevertheless, this is long e**ugh, and the flight is traumatic e**ugh, to get a pretty good idea of the pacemaker’s performance.
The flight is scheduled for Thursday, June 22 and can be seen live at this link (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-tv-wallops). We wish the Micra a safe flight and hoping to hear that it will have worked just fine throughout the journey, as it will keep open the possibility of visits to space for a lot of people.
Via: Medtronic… (http://www.medtronic.com/us-en/about/news/micra-in-space.html)
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https://www.medgadget.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Micra-to-space-300x230.jpghttps://www.medgadget.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/micra-device.jpg These days astronauts are some of the healthiest and physically robust individuals that NASA can get a hold of. But one day we may see all kinds of people going to space, even those with heart conditions. Shelbi Klings****, a Nebraska high school student had the idea to test whether an existing pacemaker is able to handle the vibrations, radiation, and weightlessness of space to get a sense of*whether pacemakers have a future in the final frontier.
https://www.medgadget.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Micra-small-small.jpgMedtronic‘s Micra pacemaker is so small that it*fits inside the heart and is delivered in a minimally invasive fashion. Conveniently, it is also small e**ugh to fit inside a 4 cm square box that’s a standard size of the Cubes in Space (http://www.cubesinspace.com/) project. Cubes in Space relies on NASA sounding rockets to deliver a bunch of small high school experiments into space for a few minutes, but*without putting them into orbit. The rocket flies in a parabolic trajectory and the flight lasts only about ten minutes. Nevertheless, this is long e**ugh, and the flight is traumatic e**ugh, to get a pretty good idea of the pacemaker’s performance.
The flight is scheduled for Thursday, June 22 and can be seen live at this link (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-tv-wallops). We wish the Micra a safe flight and hoping to hear that it will have worked just fine throughout the journey, as it will keep open the possibility of visits to space for a lot of people.
Via: Medtronic… (http://www.medtronic.com/us-en/about/news/micra-in-space.html)
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