From: utzoo!decvax!cca!OTA@S1-A@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.space Title: Article-I.D.: sri-unix.3281 Posted: Wed Sep 15 12:11:51 1982 Received: Thu Sep 16 01:40:28 1982 From: Ted Anderson15-Sep-82 0920 MAILER failed mail returned You are getting this message because a mailing list in your file directory was used as a recipient of this program-generated or incoming ARPA network message. That list may be in error. In processing the following command: MAIL/FROM"Ciccarelli at PARC-MAXC" @SPACE.FED[SPA,OTA],@SPACE.QUE[SPA,OTA] The following message was undeliverable to recipient(s) spa-use at SRI-UNIX: 15-Sep-82 0920 Ciccarelli at PARC-MAXC Space Manufacturing of Biological Materials To: "@SPACE.FED[SPA,OTA]" at S1-A, "@SPACE.QUE[SPA,OTA]" at S1-A Date: 15 Sep 1982 09:24 PDT From: Ciccarelli at PARC-MAXC Subject: Space Manufacturing of Biological Materials To: Space @ MIT-MC The September 13 issue of Electronic Engineering Times reports the following on page 29, under the headline "Biological Materials To Be Made Commercially In Space": "As a result of the experimental prototype's success on the fourth shuttle mission, McDonnell Douglas Astronautics says it will commit to the development of a production biological-materials processing unit." "The electrophoresis processing unit flown on the fourth shuttle flight was a joint project between McDonnell Douglas and Ortho Pharmaceuticals..." "According to McDonnell... the analysis of the quantities of the samples is 'extremely good'. The samples were to make a total of 1182 receptacles. Over 99 percent of the receptacles were filled to computer predictions of the experiment." "Samples which contained a 25 percent concentration of biological material produced about 400 times more separated material in space than the same 25-percent concentration could in full gravity." "...it proves that commercially viable quantities of biological materials can be produced in space." Aside: E.E.Times' Howard Roth writes a column on government and aerospace called 'DC Circuit' in which he provides excellent coverage of technology and political developments relating to space. /John