Thursday, February 22, 2024

Rocket Lab Returns Pharmaceuticals From Space

Long Beach-based Rocket Lab says that it has successfully launched and brought back a spacecraft capsule which produced pharmaceuticals in space. According to Rocket Lab, it launched a capsule into space for Varda Space Industries, which manufactured a payload of pharmaceuticals crystals in space--the first space manufacturing mission conducted outside of the International Space Station. The company said that the Varda capsule returned to earth via parachute to the Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR) near Salt Lake City, Utah.

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