257 - Can You Fix Our RV? (with Nick Cialdella)

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Sep 18, 202601:01:26Science & Medicine

Jake and Anthony are joined by Nick Cialdella, CTO of Varda Space Industries, to talk about manufacturing pharmaceuticals in space, the reentry technology that brings them back to Earth, Varda’s hypersonic testbed, and t...

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