Researchers want to know what having kids in outer space will be like


Minister-in-charge of Trade Relations S. Iswaran (centre) touring the exhibition at the Global Space and Technology Convention. - SINGAPORE SPACE AND TECHNOLOGY LIMITED

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): As countries plan to send humans to the Moon again and on long missions to Mars, the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) medical school and a local space organisation want to find out how babies and families will be made in outer space.

Will pregnancy take longer in space? How will reproductive organs and the foetus respond to the harsh space environment and radiation?

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