NASA Johnson Space Center to Assist BiVACOR Inc. with Artificial Heart System
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Wednesday, September 25, 2019
HOUSTON, Sept. 25, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --NASA Johnson Space Center will provide its unique, advanced risk-management services as part of a Space Act Agreement with BiVACOR Inc., Houston, in the company's efforts to improve the robustness and reliability of its Total Artificial Heart (TAH) system an implantable rotary bi-ventricular blood pump and associated external electronics.
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- HOUSTON, Sept. 25, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --NASA Johnson Space Center will provide its unique, advanced risk-management services as part of a Space Act Agreement with BiVACOR Inc., Houston, in the company's efforts to improve the robustness and reliability of its Total Artificial Heart (TAH) system an implantable rotary bi-ventricular blood pump and associated external electronics.
- News media are invited to the agreement's signing ceremony, which begins at 1 p.m. Central Time, Tuesday Oct. 1, 2019 at the Gilruth Center (Discovery Room) off Space Center Boulevard adjacent to Johnson Space Center.
- Media wishing to attend should arrive no later than 12:30 p.m. at the Gilruth Center via Space Center Boulevard near the intersection of NASA Parkway.
- The agreement with BiVACOR could have a significant impact on the medical community, by using NASA's expertise in risk and reliability analysis.