SpaceX to launch ISS ‘taxi service’, ‘factory-in-a-box’ could churn out 600 vaccines a minute & robot monster wolves

Elon Musk’s aerospace company is to send four astronauts into low-Earth orbit on a Crew Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday - the first commercial human spaceflight system in history. Plus, a ‘factory in a box’ could produce 600 doses of RNA vaccines a minute, black and Asian ethnicities are up to twice as likely to be infected with Covid-19 and, a town in Japan deploys robot monster wolves to protect against hungry bears.Listen to our other podcasts:Women Tech Charge: interviews with incredible women leading in Science, Technology, Engineering and MathsThe Leader: a daily news podcast helping you make sense of the day’s most important stories Ask your Smart Speaker to ‘play the news from the Evening Standard' Visit standard.co.uk/tech for more tech news Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.