A look at how technologies developed for the space industry have led to improvements in healthcare on Earth. The film is divided into four sections as follows:
SAVING LIVES: a general look at the concept of technology transfer to healthcare; the Promedus organisation; keyhole surgery, miniature eyepiece lenses; training via vrtual reality computer systems; the use of stents in surgical procedures, shape memory alloys.
HEALTH AND FITNESS: manned spaceflight and the International Space Station; the action of microgravity on human physiology and bone formation, heart failure and osteoporosis; the use of carbon fibre in artificial hips, computer modelling of stress; shape-memory alloys, use in bone fusion; diet and fitness.
TELEMEDICINE: the concept of remote operations - telecommunications, information transfer, ultrasound, robotics; secure systems of handling confidential medical data.
NEW DEVICES: the Promedus organisation; effects of microgravity on the vestibular organ, eye-head coordination; the use of ocul

begin
10:00:00:00 intro sequence
10:00:12:00 rights agreement
10:00:29:00 opening title
10:00:42:00 title ""saving lives""
10:00:48:00 var s' manned spaceflight (earthviews, shuttle, Mir, EVA)
10:01:37:09 var s' operating theatre (lights, monitor, operation
10:02:10:00 pre-launch NASA crew in orange suits
10:02:14:00 pre-launch Mir crew, including Merbold
10:02:16:00 var s' launch operations room
10:02:32:00 var s' launch (a/g tra s shuttle launch, cryogenic arms close, boosters firing, slo mo Ariane 4 launch)
10:03:05:00 var s' keyhole surgery (operating theatre, surgeons, endoscope shot removal of kidney stone, operation displayed on monitor)
10:03:48:00 var s' light-sensitive coating on miniature eyepiece lenses (woman looks through microscope,examining lenses)
10:04:13:00 var s' medical training software (students in operating theatre with simulator and screen, virtual reality screen with pressure-sensitive knife)
10:04:58:00 var s' medical stents (surgeon inserting stent, screen output)