{"id":89090,"date":"2019-03-31T06:42:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T13:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/this-company-wants-to-deliver-a-baby-in-space-and-prepare-humanity-for-a-life-beyond-earth"},"modified":"2019-03-31T06:42:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T13:42:24","slug":"this-company-wants-to-deliver-a-baby-in-space-and-prepare-humanity-for-a-life-beyond-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/this-company-wants-to-deliver-a-baby-in-space-and-prepare-humanity-for-a-life-beyond-earth","title":{"rendered":"This company wants to deliver a baby in space and prepare humanity for a life beyond Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-company-wants-to-deliver-a-baby-in-space-and-prepare-humanity-for-a-life-beyond-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What happens when Earth\u2019s resources run out? Well, if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/tags\/science-fiction\" target=\"_blank\">science fiction<\/a> has taught us anything, it\u2019s that humanity will seek a new and habitable planet somewhere in the cosmos on which to keep the species going in perpetuity. When that day comes, we\u2019ll need a viable way to procreate and deliver children in the vastness of outer space.<\/p>\n<p>Enter <a href=\"https:\/\/spacelifeorigin.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">SpaceLife Origin<\/a>, a one-of-a-kind tech company that is seeking to make it possible for humans to give birth in the vacuum of space by 2024, a goal titled \u201cMission Cradle.\u201d While that is its ultimate goal, SpaceLife is also striving to become the first company to \u201csafe-guard human \u2018Seeds-of-Life\u2019 in space [Mission Ark] by 2020 [and] make embryo conception in space feasible [Mission Lotus] by 2021,\u201d according to its official website.<\/p>\n<p>The gallery below offers a glimpse at the patent-pending \u201cArk\u201d designs. Vials of human DNA will be protected within the radiation-shielded spheres that are to be kept on Earth and satellites surrounding the planet. SpaceLife Origin describes this as an insurance policy for the continuation of mankind in case a catastrophe hits and we need to leave in a hurry.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfywire\/spacelife-origin-deliver-baby-in-space\">https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfywire\/spacelife-origin-deliver-baby-in-space<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when Earth\u2019s resources run out? Well, if science fiction has taught us anything, it\u2019s that humanity will seek a new and habitable planet somewhere in the cosmos on which to keep the species going in perpetuity. When that day comes, we\u2019ll need a viable way to procreate and deliver children in the vastness [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89090","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}