Homes made of fungi? NASA's atypical plan for human colony on Moon & Mars

For decades, sci-fi shows and movies have developed various ories about how future on Moon and Mars could be like, but reality may be t only strange but also more 'greener'. For a while w, NASA has been exploring techlogies that could grow structures out of fungi for m to become future homes on stars. This may even perhaps lead us to have more sustainable ways of living on Earth as well. 

NASA's Ames research centre at Silicon Valley, California has been prototyping techlogies that could grow habitats on Moon, Mars, and beyond out of life things like fungi and mycelia. 

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NASA's traditional habitat design resembles a turtle 

Talking about research, NASA's principal project investigator Lynn Rothschild stated that initial habitat designs for Mars are like a turtle. He also stated that idea of carrying our homes on our backs is a reliable idea but it comes with huge energy costs. 

project aims for a future where human explorers can carry with m a compact habitat built out of lightweight material with dormant fungi that will last on long journeys to places like Mars. By following a basic structure and adding water to it, fungi will be able to grow around designed framework into a fully functional human habitat. habitat will also be designed in a way that it will t contaminate environment and habitat on Mars. 

NASA's mission is supported through its invative advanced concepts program and comes under field of syntic biology. NASA in its article also states that it is still a very long way from creating livable habitats for Mars, but it is in phase of its early-st research by currently experimenting with fungi. 

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(with inputs from ncies)