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NASA plans to grow mushroom houses on the moon

Allan Rose Hill
Oct 01, 2024
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image: NASA/redhouse
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With NASA's sights on moon bases, the question becomes how do you build shelters for tomorrow's lunar inhabitants? Carting up large amounts of raw materials from Earth is prohibitively expensive. And the only resources on the surface are regolith—lunar dust—and water. Fortunately, that's all mushrooms need, leading to NASA exploring …

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