Space Time

The Next Blockbuster Drug Might Be Made in Space

Microgravity could be an ideal environment for cancer drug research

Shannon Stirone
OneZero
Published in
4 min readJan 2, 2019

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Credit: NASA/Roscosmos

NNearly a decade before the first space shuttle left Earth, NASA wanted to make drugs in space. In a 1970 internal document, the agency suggested that the microgravity environment of space could be conducive to manufacturing and…

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