Zero-gravity, human developement experiments on the Int'l Space Staton?

Question

I read they're growing human embryos under zero gravity and that some are a few years old. It further states that they look alien and all the organs settle differently in the biology due to the lack of gravity. Could the human body really survive that?

Answer 1

You need to be a bit more selective in your reading material and information sources.
There have been some experiments done on rats and, as stated above, they didn't do real well.
OTOH, the human species -is- pretty good at adapting. Maybe, over a few thousand generations, we could adapt to 0 G life.

Doug

Answer 2

They sent some baby rats to space. But that is all. No human experiments at all. By the way, the baby rats did not do well at all. Even 6 months after they came back they could not roll over if placed on their backs, and they couldn't swim, which rats can normally do quite well.

Answer 3

Be serious. Do you really think the holier than thou Bush Administration would allow NASA to experiment on living human embryos. They go nuts at the idea of using fetal TISSUE in research.

Answer 4

Hi. I do not think they have done it, at least on purpose. (There have been married couples on board, and I don't know about you...) The human development will adapt to best suit its surroundings, and zero g may be one to which it can adapt.