Lord British To Conduct Experiments On ISS

CR0WTR0B0T writes "Richard Garriott, AKA Lord British, will be part of three experiments on the International Space Station. 'Garriott has a ticket to the space station because he is an orbital spaceflight client of Space Adventures, the only company that provides commercial human space missions ... Garriott will be the first person in space who has had photorefractive keratectomy eye surgery. NASA has approved the PRK procedure for astronauts but has not yet been able to test its effects. Garriott will help scientists figure out if visual acuity of a PRK patient changes in orbit as inner eye pressure increases by up to 50% during space flights.' Mostly, NASA wants to know if he can heal himself or provide resurrection to the other astronauts in case the experiments goes awry."

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Re:PRK

[blincoln]

works great for those of us who are, for some reason or another, bad candidates for LASIK.

It's also supposed to be more durable - a number of US military branches will disqualify candidates who've had LASIK, but allow those who've had PRK.

Have you noticed any side-effects, like reduced low-light vision? That's probably my biggest concern, since I see very well in low light and would miss it.

I'll probably still wait until I can get replacement eyes if someone screws up, but I'm curious anyway.