NASA and Red Hat are building an open source medical system to diagnose sick astronauts on the ISS — could a Star Trek Tricorder be next?

In this image, ultrasound procedures help provide for medical diagnoses on the International Space Station. .

• NASA's AI medical tool works where Earth-based doctors simply cannot reach
• Deep space has no signal — so NASA built its own offline doctor
• RamaLama runs AI models the same way containers run software — predictably

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) currently rely heavily on Earth-based doctors whenever medical issues emerge hundreds of kilometres overhead.