When astronauts visit the Hubble Space Telescope in October 2008 for its final servicing mission, they will be facing a task that has no precedence – performing on-orbit 'surgery' on two ailing ...

The lateral compartment of the orbit can readily be accessed through a horizontal lateral canthotomy without the need to swing the lid or remove bone. In this paper the technique, accessible orbital ...

Purpose Demonstrations and practical experiments are important constituents of the teaching of surgical principles and techniques to residents in ophthalmology. The objective was to develop an ...

Endoscopic orbital decompression is a surgery to treat Graves’ orbitopathy (thyroid eye disease). It removes the middle and bottom walls of the bone surrounding the eye. Surgeons use endoscopes and ...

Truly astronomical sums of money go into building the space infrastructure that we depend on for many of the daily luxuries that we take for granted, like weather forecasts and GPS. Even without the ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is hoping to build on its body of work on space robotics and on-orbit proximity operations with a new satellite servicing mission in ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is evaluating whether a program previously characterized as a satellite servicing and salvaging mission may better serve the ...

WASHINGTON, June 13 (UPI) --Former Sen. John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, underwent successful heart surgery last month. Glenn, 92, had a heart valve replaced at Cleveland Clinic, ...