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Mike Wall

Private Varda Space capsule returns to Earth with space-grown antiviral drug aboard

Illustration of a conical white space capsule entering Earth's atmosphere, generating a fiery orange wake of superheated gases.

A California startup's first in-space manufacturing effort is in the books.

The capsule from Varda Space Industries' W-1 mission landed in northern Utah this afternoon (Feb. 21), bringing down to Earth crystals of an antiviral drug that were grown in orbit.

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