What To Expect When You're Expecting In Space

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Science

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

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 → → → Further reading and sources available at flashforwardpod.com ←←← Flash Forward is produced by me, Rose Eveleth. Intro music by Asura Outtro music by Hussalonia. Episode art by Matt Lubchansky. Connect with us on: Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Instagram More about how to support the show HERE. Go to iTunes and leave us a nice review! If you think you’ve spotted one of the little references I’ve hidden in the episode, email info@flashforwardpod.com. If you’re right, I’ll send you something cool. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and I'm your host. Flash Forward is a show about the future.
0:08.0	Hello and welcome to Flash Forward. I'm Rose and I'm your host. Flash forward is a show about the future.
0:14.8	Every episode we take on a specific possible or not so possible future scenario.
0:20.6	We always start with a little field trip to the future to check out what's going on and then we
0:26.0	teleport back to today to talk to real experts about how that world that we just heard
0:31.6	might really go down.
0:34.0	Got it? Great.
0:36.0	This episode we're starting in the year 21-23. Good morning Sarah.
0:54.0	Sarah. How are you feeling? That doesn't sound so good, a.
1:00.0	A.
1:01.0	Let's do a bit of a check in. Please insert your hand into the medical analyzer.
1:07.0	Thank you. I'm going to do a quick blood draw, okay?
1:14.0	Great, please stand by while I process your test results.
1:22.8	I hear that you are experiencing nausea and vomiting.
1:37.0	I will add that to the ride up.
1:39.0	Please stand by.
1:42.0	In order to complete this diagnostic, I will need a urine sample.
1:47.0	Please remove the urine sample kit from the medical drop slot now. Thank you. Please return the sample in the next 10 minutes.
1:57.0	Thank you Sarah.
2:02.0	Please stand by. Thank you for your patient, Sarah.
2:03.0	Please stand by.
2:05.0	Thank you for your patient, Sarah.
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