{"id":183720,"date":"2024-02-26T15:35:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T21:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/experimental-drugs-grown-in-space-return-to-earth-for-analysis"},"modified":"2024-02-26T15:35:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T21:35:10","slug":"experimental-drugs-grown-in-space-return-to-earth-for-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/experimental-drugs-grown-in-space-return-to-earth-for-analysis","title":{"rendered":"Experimental Drugs Grown in Space Return to Earth For Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/experimental-drugs-grown-in-space-return-to-earth-for-analysis2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, February 21st, at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VardaSpace\/status\/1760419976790659327?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1760419976790659327%7Ctwgr%5E4ad598a7c532d9e2bb421c03b4aed0db5e857d45%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.universetoday.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D165856action%3Dedit\">01:40 p.m. PST<\/a> (04:40 p.m. EST), an interesting package returned to Earth from space.<\/p>\n<p>This was the capsule from the W-1 mission, an orbital platform manufactured by California-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.varda.com\/\">Varda Space Industries<\/a>, which landed at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hill.af.mil\/About-Us\/Fact-Sheets\/Display\/Article\/672497\/utah-test-and-training-range\/\">Utah Test and Training Range<\/a> (UTTR). Even more interesting was the payload, which consisted of antiviral drugs grown in the microgravity environment of Low Earth Orbit (LEO).<\/p>\n<p>The mission is part of the company\u2019s goal to develop the infrastructure to make LEO more accessible to commercial industries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, February 21st, at 01:40 p.m. PST (04:40 p.m. EST), an interesting package returned to Earth from space. This was the capsule from the W-1 mission, an orbital platform manufactured by California-based Varda Space Industries, which landed at the Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR). Even more interesting was the payload, which consisted of [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183720","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=183720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}