{"id":101024,"date":"2020-01-17T21:03:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T05:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/nasa-wants-to-grow-a-moon-base-out-of-mushrooms"},"modified":"2020-01-17T21:03:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T05:03:14","slug":"nasa-wants-to-grow-a-moon-base-out-of-mushrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/nasa-wants-to-grow-a-moon-base-out-of-mushrooms","title":{"rendered":"NASA Wants to Grow a Moon Base Out of Mushrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sxj79jtM1cI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Fungus Among Us<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The idea is to ship dormant fungus to a Moon base and, once it arrives, give it water and the right conditions to trigger growth, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/ames\/myco-architecture\">NASA press release<\/a>. That would also require a supply of photosynthetic bacteria to provide the fungus with nutrients. Once the fungus grows into the shape of a structure, it would be heat-treated, effectively killing it and turning it into a compact brick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, traditional habitat designs for Mars are like a turtle \u2014 carrying our homes with us on our backs \u2014 a reliable plan, but with huge energy costs,\u201d lead researcher Lynn Rothschild said in the release. \u201cInstead, we can harness mycelia to grow these habitats ourselves when we get there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fungus Among Us The idea is to ship dormant fungus to a Moon base and, once it arrives, give it water and the right conditions to trigger growth, according to a NASA press release. That would also require a supply of photosynthetic bacteria to provide the fungus with nutrients. Once the fungus grows into the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-habitats","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}