I'm John Pachel with Bob Zimmerman who keeps the website behind the black.

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He takes us to deep space and then to near space near Earth objects in fact.

We've got a big discovery today.

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Bob, a very good evening to you.

We go immediately to two mouse embryos on ISS, why Bob?

Good evening to you.

Good evening John.

One of the fundamental things that must be learned at some point is whether or not it

will be possible for humans to reproduce in either weightlessness or low gravity like

on monomars.

What are the consequences of the gravitational differences?

We don't know.

We have no idea.

This is not an easy research to do because no one wants to give pregnant and then give

birth to a child in weightlessness and it's difficult and we don't have the capability

to do that.

This is a difficult research but scientists on ISS recently sent up some mouse embryos

and they tested to see whether or not they would develop into blastocysts formations in

the initial stages after germination and to see if weightlessness would affect them.

And they did this test with a ground control of mouse embryos as well as an artificial

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