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Looking ahead twenty years, the imagineering paints a compelling picture: Varda envisions a world where microgravity enables the development of drugs and materials impossible to produce on Earth. In this future, medicines formulated in space—crafted from unique chemical reactions only possible in the absence of gravity—will improve health outcomes worldwide.
Such microgravity-enabled drugs are anticipated to be high-value, high-impact products. Patients could receive treatments with formulations that are more effective or entirely unavailable on Earth, all manufactured through space-based processes. The correlation is drawn to refrigerators transforming food storage; space enables a new "oven" of chemical manipulation, opening novel medical frontiers.