[NIAC 2023] On-Demand Pharmacy for Space Missions

Space missions will become longer. It will inevitably become impossible to pack every medication you need and take it from Earth. This means that we'll need a way to produce them in space. Which is the goal of the NIAC award developed by Dr Lynn Rothschild.

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More about the NIAC award:
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2023/Astropharmacy/

00:00 Intro
02:15 Printing medicine in space
17:17 Evolution VS Engineering in Biology
36:30 Risks involved
50:50 What's next for the NIAC grant

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