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today i learned that Elon is getting into space drugs it's called Starfall and it's basically a flying drug lab > drug companies pack their ingredients into a 10-foot-wide capsule > a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carries it into orbit > the drugs grow on their own with nobody on board > then the capsule falls back to Earth and parachutes into the Pacific the reason they go through all that hassle is that drugs come out way better when they’re made in space because the tiny crystals they’re made of grow evenly up there instead of lumpy like they do on Earth take Keytruda, the best-selling drug in the world scientists grew its crystals on the space station, which helped turn it from a 2-hour IV drip into a 1-minute shot and the craziest part is that some medicine might only be possible to develop up there for example: scientists couldn't get clean crystals of a key Duchenne muscular dystrophy protein on Earth but the ones grown in space finally showed its shape and led to a new drug that went into human trials so i think space will unlock a whole new class of drugs that are impossible to make on Earth