Space Doctor Author:Lee Correy Tom Noel set up the first hospital in orbit.. and it could be the last! — It would cost 150 lives, more or less, to get the GEO satellite on-line and transmitting solar power to an energy starved Earth - that was the estimate of fatal industrial accidents in the mammoth space project. — It was Dr. Tom Noel's job to cut that deadly figure drastical... more »ly, by designing, staffing, and running a complete emergency ward... 22,400 miles from the nearest hospital.« less