Editing Interstellar travel (section)

==== Frozen embryos ====
{{Main|Embryo space colonization}}
A [[robotic]] interstellar mission carrying some number of frozen early stage human [[embryo]]s is another theoretical possibility. This method of [[space colonization]] requires, among other things, the development of an [[artificial uterus]], the prior detection of a habitable [[terrestrial planet]], and advances in the field of fully autonomous [[robotics|mobile robots]] and educational robots that would replace human parents.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Crowl|first=A.|author2=Hunt, J.|author3=Hein, A.M.|title=Embryo Space Colonisation to Overcome the Interstellar Time Distance Bottleneck|journal=Journal of the British Interplanetary Society|date=2012|volume=65|pages=283–285|url=http://www.jbis.org.uk/paper.php?p=2012.65.283|bibcode=2012JBIS...65..283C|access-date=12 April 2013|archive-date=31 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731004527/http://www.jbis.org.uk/paper.php?p=2012.65.283|url-status=live}}</ref>