Surgeons operate in near zero-gravity conditions

A French medical team today hailed as a success pioneering surgery on a man in near zero-gravity conditions on a flight looping in the air like a roller coaster to mimic weightlessness.

Surgeons operate in near zero-gravity conditions

A French medical team today hailed as a success pioneering surgery on a man in near zero-gravity conditions on a flight looping in the air like a roller coaster to mimic weightlessness.

The five-man team of doctors and a patient landed safely at an airport in south-west France after a three-hour flight, but the mid-air surgery to remove a cyst from the man’s arm took only about 10 minutes.

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