NASA 'holoported' a doctor onto the International Space Station
Story Date: 4/19/2022

 

Source: CNET, 4/17/22

I have a new noun for your vocabulary: Holoportation.  It's an amalgam of "hologram" and "teleportation," and though it may seem like it, it isn't just a niche sci-fi term buried somewhere in Isaac Asimov novels and Star Trek episodes. In October, NASA used this mind-boggling, futuristic mechanism to bring NASA flight surgeon Dr. Josef Schmid onto the International Space Station while he was safely planted on our planet. No rockets necessary.

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