Making a SPACE factory | Varda

Varda is building the flywheel of space manufacturing. We talk all about it in E04 of S³.

Please note there is a typo at 1:26 that states microgravity experiments have been performed on the ISS since the 1980s, this is incorrect and impossible as the ISS didn't launch until 1999... Oops. However, there is something interesting detail as a result of this!

At 7:45 a.m. on May 24, 1962 Scott Carpenter's Mercury-Atlas Aurora 7 lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Five minutes and 26 seconds later, a small amount of dyed liquid flowed into an encapsulated glass tube behind his right shoulder as the capsule entered space -- this is recorded as humanity's first microgravity experiment.

The first protein crystallization experiment in microgravity was conducted in 1984, this is where I got the 1980s date from a call prior to filming with Delian however it was not aboard the ISS. This experiment was part of the STS-41-G mission, which was the 13th flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the sixth flight of Space Shuttle Challenger. The mission featured the first use of a laboratory in space dedicated to crystal growth, the Continuous Flow Electrophoresis System (CFES), which provided valuable insights into the process of protein crystallization in a microgravity environment.

[s_build]

So turns out filming and editing episodes like this in 1 day leaves some glitches! I apologize about the few in this one, but I think it's better to have some errors and get an episode 1x/week!

For the clip where Delian goes silent there was an audio glitch that I fixed but failed to propagate. He said the following:

"After we make a decision he loves to go back to the details and rethink everything."

Sorry y'all! We will improve at this and push through glitches/platform issues that cause them in time

[juanfran]

These guys have an AMAZING ENERGY haha love to see passionate, happy and "crazy" people

[lelabodetho]

Hey Jason, thanks for the amazing work, S³ is now my week-end appointment 🙌
Keep pushing, the results will come for sure.

[kaulingalluzzo]

Love the content. Love the flow of the video and the editing. You’re killing it!

[CreatorWizard]

Killer video! Used to work at Karl storz down the road. Subbed 🫡

[roqua]

Now if the FAA authorization process for allowing Varda to return their Zero-G Pharma test lab from orbit was a bit more responsive, we might have been hearing about the results of the compound synthesis already. Leaders from SpaceX, Varda and other affected parties got a congressional hearing on the subject in the last 24 hours.

[Duarte_martins]

They’re so excited they can barely breathe 😂

[seel]

Remember me before your famous please, I'm working on my own ai startup rn ik it's tough out there. This content is something I haven't seen before, it's like a vlog meets documentary

[sucim]

First their approach of "we have the solution, but what is the problem?" to find commerical use-cases for private space flight seems naive and inefficient but after watch it seems like they are on to something. I hope the zero gravity environment indeed gives rise to better drugs and wish them all the best!

[nealrcn]

The price of health will be increasing again.

[kooshanjazayeri]

do you speed up the interviews on your channel? and if not why does all your interviewees seem to be on cocaine