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Astronaut Is High On Somanetics Venture. (Originated from Detroit Free Press)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 1993 by Bray, Hiawatha
DETROIT--Aug. 16--After years of falling from airplanes, plunging into oceans and being blasted into space, James Bagian needed a challenge. That's why the engineer-physician-astronaut has turned up in Troy, Mich. He started last week as a vice president at Somanetics, a company that uses light waves to peek inside the human body.
Somanetics hasn't turned a profit in its 11 years and its first product only just hit the market. But its future excites him.
"It was kind of invigorating to be involved with a corporation that was very agile and at the cutting edge of technology," Bagian said. "We don't have anything like this at NASA, and neither does anybody else."
That's no surprise. The idea behind the Somanetics Cerebral Oximeter sounds impossible at...
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