"Space Baby: Dutch Firm's Ambitious Plan for the Big Bang"
Dutch firm Spaceborn United is pioneering space sex research with the aim of achieving natural conception and birth in the partial gravity environment found on Mars. The lack of gravity presents challenges for sexual intercourse in space, so the company is first focusing on conceiving an embryo in space. Starting with mice, they have created a disk that mixes sperm and egg cells to produce a viable embryo, which is then cryogenically frozen. The firm plans to launch a mission with mice cells next year and hopes to launch a human embryo within the next five to six years. However, ethical concerns remain regarding the hazards of space and the different gravity environments that embryos are not designed for.
