Enlarge / Varda's reentry capsule soon after landing at the Utah Test and Training Range. Varda Space Industries is finally able to celebrate. For nearly eight months, the in-space manufacturing company's first mission was essentially stranded in low-Earth orbit, but not because of any technical malfunction or a restriction imposed by the laws of physics. Instead, the spacecraft couldn't return to Earth until Varda and three government entities—the US military, the Federal Aviation Administratio...