SpaceLife Origin is planning the birth of its first extraterrestrial child.
Humanity dreams of colonizing the solar system and is gradually preparing for it, but scientists believe that in order to implement such large-scale plans, it is necessary to know how space affects various aspects of the human body. Researchers from the SpaceLife Origins project are looking for female volunteers willing to give birth away from Earth.
The experiment is planned to be carried out in 2024. If everything goes well, then for the first time in the history of our planet a “non-earthly” (that is, a person born outside the Earth) will be born.
“If humanity wants to become a multi-planetary species, you need to understand how to reproduce in space,” says SpaceLife Origin founder and CEO Keys Mulder.
Concept art of the SpaceLife Ark incubator.
Before giving birth in 2024, SpaceLife Origin will conduct several preliminary tests. The company is currently developing a "space incubator for embryos": they plan to put human sperm and eggs into it and send them into space in 2021. As soon as the incubator is in space, the eggs will be fertilized - and the development of the embryo will begin. Four days after the launch, the device will return to Earth, where fertilized eggs will be artificially introduced into the uterine cavity, and then childbirth will follow at the appointed time.
Three years after the tests, one or more pregnant women will travel into space, where they will give birth to their first life form far from their home planet.
“During the 24-36-hour mission, a woman will give birth 250 miles above the Earth (about 400 kilometers - Ed.) Accompanied by a world-class trained medical team,” says a company spokesman. "A carefully prepared and controlled process, like the earthly Western standards for mother and child, will reduce all possible risks."
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SpaceLife Origin notes that this experiment doesn't come cheap. The company claims that just conceiving an embryo in space can cost about $ 5 million, and birth even more.
The search for volunteers will start in 2022.
Vladimir Guillen