An invention developed by UofL's astrosurgery team made its first trip to space for testing in weightlessness as a payload aboard a suborbital space flight by Virgin Galactic. The invention, a surgical fluid management system, flew aboard Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity SpaceShipTwo from Spaceport America in New Mexico in May, prior to Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space flight on July 11. The system is designed to make it possible for surgery to be conducted in a weightless environment and would be used on long-term space missions, such as on a lunar station or on deep-space missions such as to Mars. The astrosurgery team, led by George Pantalos, professor in the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at the School of Medicine, and Tommy Roussel, assistant professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the J.B. Speed School of Engineering, has been working on the system for 10 years, a project that has involved 23 students so far. The team previously te
fourteen foreigners and poor afghans have been confirmed killed in the attack on the internet continental hotel in kabul afghanistan officials say six gunman wearing army uniforms stormed the compound saturday evening sparking a thirteen hour gun battle with police the attackers were all killed the taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. and most u.s. government agencies will be closed today after congress failed to reach a deal on reopening the government of vote is now scheduled for monday at noon the shutdown came into effect saturday after the senate failed to pass a new budget. u.s. vice president mike pence is in jerusalem today as he continues his tour of the middle east heads was given a military welcome as he met israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu. says the first top u.s. official to visit the city since trump s administration just decision to officially recognized roussel me as israel s capital and to move the u.s.