Medicines made in space to touch in the Australian outback

This week, a 1 -meter -wide capsule will fall from the sky and land in the southern Australia desert carrying a cargo of drugs.

Since its launch on a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on January 14, a reactor aboard the capsule has manufactured a non -disclosed pharmaceutical compound.

Varda, the American company that built the capsule, aims to show that the production of drugs in low terrestrial orbit …