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First 3D Bioprinter Bound for ISS Destroyed in Soyuz Accident – Source

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The first 3D bioprinter that was to be launched into space was incinerated on Thursday after a Soyuz spacecraft crashed due to a malfunction during liftoff, a source in the rocket and space industry told Sputnik on Friday.

"The bioprinter was in the habitation module, which jettisoned from the escape capsule of the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft and fully burnt," the source said.

Earlier this week, Yousef Hesuani, a co-founder and managing partner of the company that produced the bioprinter, told Sputnik that the unique bioprinter, called OrganAut, would be delivered by the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft to the ISS for the world’s first experiment on printing organs in space.

READ MORE: 'It's a Reliable System': NASA Believes Russia Will Find Cause of Soyuz Incident

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