When Bill Ismer checked into Tampa General Hospital with 48 hours to live, he was in desperate need of a new heart. Ten months later on October 28, 1999, he got the transplant he needed and so much more.
It's now back on Earth and in the Tampa Bay Area. Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore are working with NASA to study space's effects on heart tissue.
Two thousand three hundred luminaries surrounded the LifeLink Foundation near the Selmon Expressway and US-301 to commemorate "blue and green day," which was on April 14th to honor organ donors, recipients, and their families.