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Canada Goose Parka In 2012, biomedical engineers and surgeons from Carnegie Mellon University joined those at the University of Louisville to create surgical tools and blood containment methods for use on space missions to the moon, near Earth asteroids, and Mars.

This is good timing, since the NASA astronaut class of 2013 will be flying those missions between 2013 2030.

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