40 Years Ago: A Look Back At 1977

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With help from his parents, David Vetter, 6, of Houston, Texas, walks for the first time outside the isolation bubble he has lived in all his life. David is wearing a germ-free suit called the Mobile Isolator System, developed by NASA in cooperation with the Texas Children’s Hospital, at an estimated cost of $20,000. David was born with severe combined immune deficiency.

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