{"id":177314,"date":"2023-12-03T03:24:52","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T09:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/startup-working-on-space-babies-but-the-risks-are-grim"},"modified":"2023-12-03T03:24:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T09:24:52","slug":"startup-working-on-space-babies-but-the-risks-are-grim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/startup-working-on-space-babies-but-the-risks-are-grim","title":{"rendered":"Startup Working on Space Babies, But the Risks Are Grim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/startup-working-on-space-babies-but-the-risks-are-grim2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If humans intend to conquer the stars and spread civilization beyond Earth, we really need to figure out sex: can humans conceive and have babies in places such as Mars, where factors like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/humans-in-space\/space-radiation-is-risky-business-for-the-human-body\/#:~:text=Space%20radiation%20can%20lead%20to, vessels%2C%20leading%20to%20cardiovascular%20disease.\" class=\"\">high amounts of radiation<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/humans-in-space.jaxa.jp\/en\/life\/health-in-space\/body-impact\/#:~:text=When%20you%20go%20to%20space%2C%20gravity%20weakens%20and%20thus%20fluids, astronauts%20often%20have%20congested%20noses.\" class=\"\">lower gravity<\/a> could wreck the adult body, nevermind potentially hindering natural conception and deforming growing fetuses?<\/p>\n<p>A growing number of researchers and entrepreneurs want to tackle those questions. Take this startup called Spaceborn United, which we\u2019ve <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/neoscope\/ivf-embro-incubator-space\" class=\"\">blogged about previously<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The company is still hard at work, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20231114-big-bang-dutch-firm-eyes-space-baby\" class=\"\">new reporting from <em>AFP<\/em><\/a>, with the aim of having a baby naturally conceived and born on Mars in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If humans intend to conquer the stars and spread civilization beyond Earth, we really need to figure out sex: can humans conceive and have babies in places such as Mars, where factors like high amounts of radiation and lower gravity could wreck the adult body, nevermind potentially hindering natural conception and deforming growing fetuses? A [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1901,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sex","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177314","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}