{"id":123695,"date":"2021-06-11T17:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T00:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/freeze-dried-sperm-the-future-of-space-colonies-is-being-tested-on-the-iss"},"modified":"2021-06-11T17:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T00:22:17","slug":"freeze-dried-sperm-the-future-of-space-colonies-is-being-tested-on-the-iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/freeze-dried-sperm-the-future-of-space-colonies-is-being-tested-on-the-iss","title":{"rendered":"Freeze-dried sperm: The future of space colonies is being tested on the ISS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/freeze-dried-sperm-the-future-of-space-colonies-is-being-tested-on-the-iss2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Life on Mars may be freeze-dried.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>But there\u2019s a solution: freeze-dry it.<\/p>\n<p>In a first-of-its-kind experiment, a team of Japanese researchers freeze-dried samples of mice sperm and sent them <a class href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/science\/animals-international-space-station-nasa\/amp\">aboard the ISS<\/a> to see how well this crucial element of human life (and, well, a lot of life on Earth) will fair against the harsh <a class href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/science\/what-space-radiation-does-to-humans\">radiation of space<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even after six long years aboard the ISS, the team found that the mice\u2019s space sperm sired equally healthy pups as its terrestrial control. An additional X-ray experiment predicts that this positive outcome could persist with up to 200 years of space radiation exposure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life on Mars may be freeze-dried. But there\u2019s a solution: freeze-dry it. In a first-of-its-kind experiment, a team of Japanese researchers freeze-dried samples of mice sperm and sent them aboard the ISS to see how well this crucial element of human life (and, well, a lot of life on Earth) will fair against the harsh [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}