Scientists in Voronezh, central Russia, announced on Tuesday that a Russian cockroach named Nadezhda (Hope) had given birth to the first organisms ever conceived in space. Nadezhda was conceived during the Foton-M bio-satellite journey from September 14 to September 26.
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