{"id":183571,"date":"2024-02-25T05:23:13","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T11:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/see-varda-spaces-private-in-space-manufacturing-capsules-historic-return-to-earth-in-photos"},"modified":"2024-02-25T05:23:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T11:23:13","slug":"see-varda-spaces-private-in-space-manufacturing-capsules-historic-return-to-earth-in-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/see-varda-spaces-private-in-space-manufacturing-capsules-historic-return-to-earth-in-photos","title":{"rendered":"See Varda Space\u2019s private in-space manufacturing capsule\u2019s historic return to Earth in photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/see-varda-spaces-private-in-space-manufacturing-capsules-historic-return-to-earth-in-photos2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Varda plans to pioneer the use of <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/in-space-manufacturing-carbon-footprint\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/in-space-manufacturing-carbon-footprint\">orbital manufacturing<\/a> spacecraft such as this capsule to open unique pathways for engineering materials in space. \u201cProcessing materials in microgravity, or the near-weightless conditions found in space, offers a unique environment not available through terrestrial processing,\u201d the company\u2019s website states.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <\/strong><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/varda-in-space-manufacturing-capsule-landing-success\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/varda-in-space-manufacturing-capsule-landing-success\">Private Varda Space capsule returns to Earth with space-grown antiviral drug aboard<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The recovery made Varda only the third private company to recover an intact spacecraft from orbit, after <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18853-spacex.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18853-spacex.html\">SpaceX<\/a> and Boeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Varda plans to pioneer the use of orbital manufacturing spacecraft such as this capsule to open unique pathways for engineering materials in space. \u201cProcessing materials in microgravity, or the near-weightless conditions found in space, offers a unique environment not available through terrestrial processing,\u201d the company\u2019s website states. Related: Private Varda Space capsule returns to Earth [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}