The Secret Doctors of NASA's series of memoirs, diaries, and reports.

From actual doctors employed by an undisclosed arm of NASA between 1970 and 2001.

These writings contain true accounts of the unusual and often highly classified medical conditions experienced by an astronaut during and after their space missions.

Following the defunding of the clandestine medical program after the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attack, the majority of these accounts were lost, forgotten.

On tape drivers in a NASA storage facility, in 2016, a former intern whose job was to clean out one of these facilities, discovered them.

Ten years later, he is ready to release what he found.

A dentist discovery.

Arnold F.A. DDS August 4th, 1989.

The Secret Doctors of NASA's series of memoirs, diaries, and reports.

The patient was in decent spirits when we met, although I could tell something was on his mind.

So we chatted for a little bit, turned out he'd been working on the Fang Lee discovery.

My heart sank.

See when Fang and Lee discovered what they initially called the Venus Tic-Tax in 1982, no one in the know was surprised.

Just another alien organism to add to the list of hundreds.

The team formed a conduct research and determined its risks and benefits.

There was no expectations that anything would come of it.

As is so often the case, those in the know, knew nothing.

Give those Venus Tic-Tax and electric shock in the right place for the right amount of time, and what do you get?

Pluripidant stem cells.

They had the potential to become a game changer in the field of regenerative medicine.

I don't think anybody expected to discover them when we did.

All the data we had showed that we were at least a decade away from inducing pluripidancy.

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