When the patient is a million miles out in deep space, the optometrist needs to get his refraction spot on. David Baker explains
Space exploration, aeronautics research, astrophysics: NASA is an acknowledged expert in these and other scientific endeavours. But optometry? By its own account NASA likened itself to an optometrist when faced with the mother of all awkward 'non-tolerance' cases. The patient was the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), which had been given the wrong prescription and was orbiting 569km above the Earth at a velocity of 28,000km/h.
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