Heart Tissue Bioprint Tech To Launch On Space Station Resupply Mission

Mark Carreau October 31, 2023

Redwire Space's upgraded 3D BioFabrication Facility.

Credit: NASA
HOUSTON—An upcoming resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) will include payload for an effort to bioprint heart tissue, the next step in a Redwire Space Corp.-backed effort to one day produce human organs in space for transplant on Earth. The cargo will be among a more than 3,500...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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