{"id":793879,"date":"2025-02-25T10:21:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T15:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=793879"},"modified":"2025-02-25T10:21:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T15:21:06","slug":"medicines-made-in-space-set-to-touch-down-in-australian-outback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=793879","title":{"rendered":"Medicines made in space set to touch down in Australian outback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Varda\u2019s first capsule, W-1, after landing in Utah in February 2024<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">John Kraus\/Varda<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Sometime this week, a 1-metre-wide capsule will fall from the sky and land in the South Australian desert carrying a cargo of drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Since launching on a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on 14 January, a reactor on board the capsule has been manufacturing an undisclosed, proprietary pharmaceutical compound.<\/p>\n<p>Varda, the US-based company that built the capsule, is aiming to show that producing drugs in low Earth orbit\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2469866-medicines-made-in-space-set-to-touch-down-in-australian-outback\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Varda\u2019s first capsule, W-1, after landing in Utah in February 2024 John Kraus\/Varda Sometime this week, a 1-metre-wide capsule will fall from the sky and land in the South&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":793880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=793879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/793880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=793879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=793879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=793879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}