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Nearing the final frontier
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published September 28, 2006
Braving queasy stomachs, a team of French doctors boarded a plane Wednesday for the first operation on a human being in zero-gravity conditions. The aircraft soared and dived over Bordeaux, France, to create weightlessness while the doctors strapped inside successfully removed a cyst from the arm of bungee jumper Philippe Sanchot, 46. The flight lasted three hours, but the operation took just more than eight minutes' worth of 22-second intervals of weightlessness. The operation paves the way toward one day performing surgery in space.
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