Sex in space: pregnancy impossible

Scientists of the American space agency NASA said that the reproduction in space is impossible. In orbit female astronaut will never be able to successfully pregnant and give birth.

NASA gave answer to the question, which for many years was tormented by the most curious - if people can "successfully" engaged sex in space . It turns out that there can not conceive a child. And the weightlessness of space is absolutely not to blame. Fertilization will interfere cosmic radiation That actively attacks the human body.

How do I find researchers from the Center Ames Research in California, without the construction of a particularly effective shielding on spaceships powerful proton particles with a high degree of probability sterilize any embryo, conceived as a result of sex in space . In addition, affected men and fertility in general, as radioactive particles will reduce the sperm count.

In light of this discovery, the idea of ​​sending people to colonize other worlds and multiply there, it seems not quite right. Travel to some of the planets, habitable, can take decades and centuries, so that no opportunity to engage in sex in space   and give birth to new astronauts on board the spacecraft people simply can not do. And we now know that cosmic radiation   will not do this.

However, this problem can be solved theoretically. Scientists emphasize that the current construction technology spacecraft do not provide protection from proton particles, but in the future, science may develop sufficiently effective coverage.

Responsible for the development of all cells in the body of DNA is particularly vulnerable to those kinds cosmic radiation That occurs outside the earth's atmosphere.

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