Spacehab to Focus on Making Drugs, Microchips Aboard ISS

摘要

Spacehab announced April 10 it intends to create a new division to pursue in-space manufacturing opportunities in life sciences and materials that could produce additional revenue for the struggling company in as little as two to three years. Thomas B. Pickens, the Houston-based space services company's president and chief executive officer, said in an interview at the 23rd National Space Symposium here that the near-term, international space station-based manufacturing opportunities Spacehab has in mind do not require prolonged research and development to bring to market.