Could You Get Pregnant in Space?

Researchers are already trying to figure out if people can make space babies. If we need to live in space long-term, will our species be able to reproduce? Hosted by: Reid Reimers SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, D.A.Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, charles george, Greg ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.popsci.com/stephen-hawking-human-extinction-colonize-mars/ https://mars.nasa.gov/all-about-mars/facts/ https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/nasa-knows/what-is-microgravity-58.html https://science.howstuffworks.com/can-you-have-baby-on-mars.htm http://journalofcosmology.com/Mars144.html https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/houston-we-might-have-some-major-problems-making-babies-space-180954828/ https://www.nature.com/articles/npjmgrav20168 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6890601 https://upcommons.upc.edu/bitstream/handle/2117/171077/IAC-19,A2,3,5,x49523.pdf https://www.nasa.gov/ames/micro-11 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0006753 https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/Blastocyst_Development https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/scientists-grow-mouse-embryos-space http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2016-04/17/content_24611016.htm https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6157341/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26414276/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306987704004888 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnint.2014.00011/full https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2610337/ https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/how-nasa-protects-astronauts-from-space-radiation-at-moon-mars-solar-cosmic-rays https://www.thoughtco.com/can-women-get-pregnant-in-space-3072590 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4921147/ Image Sources: https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/astronaut-with-a-child-in-space-space-tourist-vector-background-eps-10-gm1167785855-322183282 https://images.nasa.gov/details-US_EVA_48_05_619268_hires https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/683/valles-marineris-the-grand-canyon-of-mars/?category=planets_mars https://www.nasa.gov/content/getting-weightless-in-the-zero-g https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bion_spacecraft_original.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/sperm-microscopic-view-gm583794952-99891667 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0006753#pone-0006753-g002 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/human-blastocyst-with-inner-cell-mass-gm492421566-76292031 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_biochemistry_of_semen_(1954)_(19748358104).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Humanstemcell.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DNA_methylation_reprogramming.png https://www.videoblocks.com/video/ultrasound-of-a-little-babies-heart-beat-in-a-mothers-womb-r9dqfsq8liy0hz31u https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/film-x-ray-skull-and-body-of-child-and-blank-area-at-right-side-gm838830634-136554717