Space manufacturing
![Growth of protein crystals from liquid in outer space: the top part shows a syringe with extruded protein droplet.[1]](/uploads/202502/12/VDA_syringe_with_protein_droplet2515.jpg)
![Crystals grown by American scientists on the Russian Space Station Mir in 1995: (a) rhombohedral canavalin, (b) creatine kinase, (c) lysozyme, (d) beef catalase, (e) porcine alpha amylase, (f) fungal catalase, (g) myglobin, (h) concanavalin B, (i) thaumatin, (j) apoferritin, (k) satellite tobacco mosaic virus and (l) hexagonal canavalin.[2]](/uploads/202502/12/Crystals_grown_in_microgravity2515.jpg)


Space manufacturing is the production of manufactured goods in an environment outside a planetary atmosphere. Typically this includes conditions of microgravity and hard vacuum. Manufacturing in space has several potential advantages over Earth-based industry.