NASA plans to build homes out of Mycelia fungi on Moon and Mars

Humans have always dreamt of living on Mars or Moon and institutions like NASA are doing everything to make it come true. NASA is currently exploring techlogies that could grow structures out of fungi on stars and it could easily become our future homes. myco-architecture project out of NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley is prototyping techlogies that could 'grow' habitats on Moon, Mars and on or stars.

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According to Lynn Rothschild, principal investigator on project, NASA's current tritional habitat designs for Mars are like a turtle, carrying it on backs, a reliable plan but with huge energy costs. "Inste, we can harness mycelia to grow se habitats ourselves when we get re," Rothschild suggests. "This research is supported through NASA Invative vanced Concepts program, kwn as NIAC, and is part of a field kwn as syntic biology – study of how we can use life itself as techlogy, in this case, fungi," NASA's official website on project. 

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Mycelia could be used for water filtration and biomining systems that can extract minerals from wastewater, ar project active in Rothschild's lab. It could be also used for bioluminescent lighting, humidity regulation and even self-generating habitats capable of healing mselves. And with about 40 per cent of carbon emissions on Earth coming from construction, re's an ever-increasing need for sustainable and affordable housing here as well. 

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Rothschild’s myco-architecture proposal was selected for a NIAC Phase I award in 2018. With a small amount of funding, Rothschild studied overall viability of concept and vanced techlogy reiness level. NIAC is kwn for its potential to create breakthrough techlogies for possible future missions, however, project is currently in its early-st and may never be an actual NASA mission but if successful techlogy may rightfully be inducted into future programmes. 

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