Dr. Joseph Delarusso said in an interview that for the first time NASA has approved the advanced all-laser Lasik surgery to improve the vision of its astronaut candidates. Many of them previously failed the tests because of bad eye sight.

Dr. Delarusso is the man who gave us the all-laser Lasik in his New York City office in 2002. The all-laser lasik is considered to be a safer and the more precise lasik, a fact that makes NASA to accept candidates that failed the vision requirement if they undergone a Lasik procedure.

However, the procedure must be bladeless lasik, that is lasik performed without cutting the cornea. Bladeless lasik is also known as Intralase Lasik or all-laser Lasik.

NASA is following the lead by other branches of the US military which determined that all-laser lasik is safe for the military.

The extreme zero-gravity conditions of NASA pilots make even wearing contact lenses intolerable. More astronaut candidates with vision problems will now qualify, as long as they undergo the all laser bladeless lasik surgery.

The decision by the military and NASA reflect how safe this type of lasik is now considered, which was reported by Dr. Delarusso already several months ago, when he said that Lasik surpasses in safety even the wearing of contact lenses.”

Lasik is the most popular self-improvement surgery in the world at the moment. Until introduced by Dr. Delarusso in 2002, the procedure was performed with the use of a blade, or a microkeratome, which was sometimes associated with complications.

The intralase all-laser lasik is now the standard of care, says Dr. Delarusso, the man who gave bladeless lasik to the world.