Embryo Space Colonization - Various Concepts

Various Concepts

Space colonization
  • Solar System
    • Inner
      • Mercury
      • Venus
      • Earth
        • Moon
        • Lagrange points
      • Mars
        • Phobos
        • Deimos
    • Asteroids
      • Ceres
    • Free space
    • Outer
      • Jupiter
        • Io
        • Europa
        • Ganymede
        • Callisto
      • Saturn
        • Titan
      • Uranus
      • Neptune
      • Trans-Neptunian objects
      • Comets

Embryo space colonization concepts involve various concepts of delivering the embryos from Earth to an extrasolar planet around another star system.

  • The most straightforward concept is to make use of frozen embryos. Modern medicine has made it possible to store frozen embryos in various low-development stages (up to several weeks into the development of the embryo).
  • The technologically more challenging but more flexible scenario calls for just carrying the biological means to create embryos, that is various samples of donated sperm and egg cells.
  • Going a step further, the spacecraft "cargo" could be limited just to the genetic information of humans stored in as computer files. In this case, sperm and egg cells would need to be recreated by a biosequencer at the target planet (this proposal is currently not technologically feasible).

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