For any length of stay > 4 months their return home workouts are insane like 2+ hours per day.
For any length of stay > 4 months their return home workouts are insane like 2+ hours per day.
https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/counteracting-bone-and-...:
“Each astronaut aboard the space station engages the muscles, bones, and other connective tissues that comprise their musculoskeletal systems using Earth-like exercise regimens. Crews exercise for an average of two hours a day.”
Any deployment of people to the Moon will have to take this into account.
And kids born and grown in lunar gravity may not be able to come to Earth under any circumstances.
Also, it's not at all clear that people could procreate and (especially) have a normal pregnancy in very low g conditions. We have nowhere near the kind of understanding of the gestational process that could allow us to know for sure before trying it out.