Flash Forward6 Nov 2018

What To Expect When You're Expecting In Space

If humans want to really have a go at leaving Earth and living in space or on other planets, we’re going to have to figure out a lot of things: spaceships, food supplies, fuel, how to keep everybody from killing one another. But one thing seems to be frequently left out of the picture, when it comes to distant space travel research: reproduction. It turns out we know very, very little about what pregnancy in space might look like, or whether it’s even possible at all.

Guests

Maggie Koerth-Baker: senior science writer at FiveThirtyEight

Kim Stanley Robinson: science fiction author of the Mars trilogy, The Years of Rice and Salt, 2312, Aurora and others, including a new book Red Moon.

Anicca Harriot: PhD student at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, advocate for STEM outreach

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