Astronauts on the moon or Mars may be growing their homes out of mushrooms, rather than building them, according to NASA
Transporting habitats or even the materials for habitats that astronauts can safely inhabit during a lunar mission, or an extended stay on Mars, will be expensive. And they will likely take up a lot of space to shuttle them from one planet to another, when other valuable resources may be needed. One of the projects at NASA's Ames Research Center in California focuses on myco-architecture.
Mars, already largely desert, is losing water quicker than expected, study saysFungi feed off of organic material and produce spores. Underneath, mycelia acts like roots that actively build the fungi. They can spread out into a multitude of mushrooms. Or, in this example of synthetic biology, they can actually be used to create a different kind of detailed structure like the literal building blocks of a habitat. A stool constructed out of mycelia after two weeks of growth.
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