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A company manufactured drugs for AIDs in space

https://gizmodo.com/california-startup-varda-space-drugs-capsule-return-1851298876

The company is Varda Space. They are experimenting with manufacturing drugs in space. Their first batch returned to earth today, landing in the Utah desert.

I know you're asking: why manufacture drugs in space? Well basically when creating crystals on earth, there is sometimes a more stable but less useful form that ends up emerging. I don't really understand this ( I failed chemistry lol) but kinda interesting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearing_polymorphs

The specific drug made in space is called Retonavir, which is used for helping with HIV patients. So no, the title of this post wasn't even a joke. Lest you think that I made this up:

https://www.healio.com/news/infectious-disease/20240222/hiv-drugs-manufactured-in-space-return-to-earth

Outside of the memes, this is pretty neat. Who knows what other stuff we will manufacture in orbit, with the cost of space launches decreasing?

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The mission, though stranded for months, turned out to be historically significant, achieving two new and important milestones.

Darn that's insane! I wonder what kind of disaster could cause the payload to become stranded?

The mission was originally supposed to return in September 2023 but was denied reentry to Earth by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

:#marseyunamused:

the FAA was the real disaster all along

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I would only support pic related if the ship was full of AIDS experiments

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