[ WP ] The first child conceived and carried to term in space is born . The full effects of zero gravity embryonic development are shocking .

`` How's it going?'' 
 
 `` Uh... it's done.'' 
 
 `` Already? She's only been in labor for five minutes.'' 
 
 `` Yeah, it kind of just... plopped out. But that's not the weird thing. Houston, it's, um... it's round.'' 
 
 `` It's what?'' 
 
 `` It's round. It's got eyes, and ears, and fingers and toes and... all that stuff, but they're all sort of sitting in place on this creepy flesh ball. We have n't cut the cord yet, and it looks like a balloon, the way it's floating. Oh, it's ticklish.'' 
 
 `` Jim, what are you talking about? Does it at least look healthy?'' 
 
 `` Well, I guess, in the sense that it is n't dead, but I do n't think it has any bones. It does n't look like it would survive gravity. It does n't even have a head, just a face sticking out of the ball.'' 
 
 `` And it's alive?'' 
 
 `` To be fair, it does look... okay. It's with Liz now, she's feeding it. It's actually... weirdly cute, in a way. It's bouncy.'' 
 
 `` This was a bad idea.'' 
 
 `` Oh, definitely, sir, but... Liz says he has my eyes.''
