'Space pups' born from freeze-dried mouse sperm stored on space station

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Freeze-dried mouse sperm that spent months at the International Space Station (ISS) returned to Earth and successfully fertilized mouse ovary eggs to produce twitchy-nosed "space pups" — for science.

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These questions come to mind: Will there be any long term or shortened life spans for the mouse "space pups"? Will similar experiments be carried out on other but larger, mammalian species? Why use reproduction as a test for space radiation caused DNA damage? Are there plans for possible human IVF tests using the same modality?