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White House wants to turn space station into commercially run venture
- indescions_2018 9y agoFrom its inception, ISS payloads for for-profit microgravity manufacturing have been considered as a driver for human spaceflight funding. A bit of Spacehab history with a classic retro illustration ;) http://www.astronautix.com/s/spacehab.html http://www.astronautix.com/s/spacehab.html One potential application moving forward are the very large, low defect protein crystals grown in the APCF Advanced Protein Crystallization Facility - Protein Crystallization in Microgravity https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/249.html https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experime...