Hannah Lyons

Right.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, um, again, that's sort of what we're interested in looking at in the future because we do, we are curious as to whether this is a bit of a dose dependent effect of, is there a level of gravity that is enough to still be able to reproduce?

Like Mars is a bit more like 60% close to similar to earth's gravity.

And obviously the moon's a bit less than that, but whether or not there is a dose that we can get reproduction and whether or not if stimulated gravity

Well, yes, it's the most common question that we get is, oh, yeah, if and when they've done it, what could have happened?

Yeah, I mean, it's definitely an interest of companies and researchers around.

I think a lot of where the field thinks it might go is potentially in artificial womb technology where humans might not be able and animals might not be able to carry pregnancies themselves, but we might be able to make an artificial womb that is a bit more robust and less complex

affected by the mechanical forces that go alongside space travel.

And those might be able to help us reproduce, whether that's, yeah, like I said, livestock or humans.

But at the moment, there's a lot of unanswered questions and a lot of barriers between where we are currently and reproducing in space.

There's definitely some start-up companies that are looking into this.

I believe there's one called Spaceborne, which is looking at similar things to what we have, which is making devices where they can test for fertilisation and things like that in zero-g and potentially space environments.

There's groups out of Japan that have done the work where they've sent up embryos and sperm with the ISS.

But outside of groups that already have access to things like a space agency, at my university, we've got a centre for space research.

Outside of those sort of niche interest areas, there's not a lot of money and there's not a lot of active research happening in this space.

Yeah.

No worries.