UC San Diego Study Proposes Growing Medicines Aboard Spacecraft for Mars Missions

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A new study from the University of California San Diego has proposed an on-board solution to the problem of drug expiration during long-duration space missions. More than half of medications stored on the International Space Station expire within three years, posing a significant challenge for a Mars mission expected to last around 400 days. Researchers successfully cultivated cowpea mosaic virus, a plant virus with cancer-fighting properties, on tobacco-related and black-eyed pea plants under simulated microgravity conditions. The virus was then extracted from the plants without destroying them, suggesting a potentially sustainable method of producing medicine in space.

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