The company’s efforts may be hampered by the fact that surgery on humans has never been attempted in space, raising questions of how astro-medics would mitigate any pregnancy complications with all ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Scientists have studied a lot of pregnant animals in space, including salamanders, fish, and rats, but not humans. Over 60 women have traveled to ...

Previous studies involving pregnant rats on NASA spaceflights hinted ... affirming that standard development is feasible in space. Wakayama's team is now gearing up to investigate whether mouse ...

A new 28-minute film explores the medical, social, political and ethical challenges of parenthood and child-rearing that truly permanent communities in space will need to solve. Dave Brody writes ...