Reproduction in space

Jeffrey Keenan could be forgiven for feeling a certain competitive chagrin after the birth of Thaddeus Daniel Pierce this July. When baby Thaddeus was born, he was technically the “oldest baby in the

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Who hasn’t watched a show like Gladiators or Total Wipeout and thought: “Yeah, I could do that”? Or even: “I bet I could do better”? In my case, that thought also extended to – wait for it – astronaut

Two men and a very new baby

Four views of modern maternity

On 2 November 2000, a US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts became the first full-time crew of the International Space Station (ISS). Expedition 1’s Bill Shepherd, Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko