India, March 1 -- How close are we to manufacturing in space, and what possible advantages could that have? For years, space, by which we mean the International Space Station (ISS) and other manned laboratories in Low Earth Orbit, has been largely a place of small-scale experiments (on animals ranging from mice and fish to bacteria), and attempts at off- world agriculture and air and water recycling, much of it focused on eventual inter-planetary travel. But as the ISS era draws to a close (scan the QR code alongside for more on that), and private companies head to LEO, with plans for laboratories, hotels and other entertainment and research spaces, a new need is emerging: that of on-site manufacture. There will be no way to keep prices dow...