00:00The star of the story is a company from California called VADA Space Industries, founded in 2021.
00:08VADA's idea is as simple as it is radical.
00:13You build a small automated factory inside a capsule, launch it into orbit, let it produce there and then bring
00:20it back along with the product.
00:22In 2023, the first capsule named W1-Flu on board was a small laboratory that was supposed to crystallize the
00:33HIV drug Ritonavir.
00:35VADA grew a very specific, hard-to-produce crystal form of Ritonavir in orbit.
00:40In February 2024, the capsule sped through the atmosphere at more than 25 times the speed of sound and landed
00:50safely on a military site in Utah.
00:52It was the first time ever that an entirely private company landed a spacecraft on American soil.
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