The U.S. space Agency to figure out a series of experiments, if makes the space children, which will be crucial when the time comes to colonize the planet. Elon Musk helps with his space rocket H.
The crew of the International space station and researchers on Earth will help to determine how sperm behaves in zero gravity, to shed light on the ability to make babies in space. According to NASA, a set of experiments for micro-11 project to fill a gap, since it is still unclear how space flights affect reproductive health, in particular the quality of sperm.
Project, we hope to shed light on the viability of children in low gravity conditions. The research team argues that the failure to make the space babies will jeopardize humanity is the probability that we have to leave one day on our planet.
“As we plan to travel outside the space station with the thought of colonizing the moon and Mars and other celestial bodies, the question of whether or not multi-generational survival may occur not only in animals but in humans is a very fundamental question that needs to be addressed,” said Joseph Tash, a researcher at the University of Kansas medical center, which is to check the semen on the Ground, led by USA today.
The lack of gravity problems, the ability to fuse the egg, while sperm can move more freely in zero gravity. “Delays or problems at this stage can prevent the fertilization takes place in space,” according to the NASA website.
Sperm samples for Micro-11 experiment arrived at NASA’s Kennedy space center in Florida, where researchers were preparing to launch to the International space station
Until now, the mammals had little success in the transfer space, in contrast to frogs, snails and salamanders.
In 2017 NASA sent sperm mouse into space; frozen samples experienced a nine-month journey to the ISS, healthy mice were born after their return to Earth.
For a recent study frozen samples of semen with bull semen was launched to the ISS aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, owned by space X. Elon Musk
The crew of astronauts will defrost activate sperm special chemicals to make it move, and hopefully will be able to fuse it with an egg.
When the experiments ended, the sperm will be mixed with preservatives and sent back to earth for analysis to see if the space of sperm is different from the natural fluids and can enter the egg and fertilize it. Bull semen was sent to “quality control” – as cells resemble human sperm.
NASA is not asking for six adult men, who are on ISS to contribute to any case for conducting the experiments, as “it is clear why the space Agency not to go this route, if for no other reason than the limits of what can be reasonably demanded even in the open space workplace,” reports Live Science.
Sourse: sputniknews.com
