Jonathan Dessi-Olive was quoted in ‘Growing mushroom houses on the moon? NASA’s fungus-filled plan’

Source: Aljazeera

“It’s almost like science non-fiction,” said Jonathan Dessi-Olive, assistant professor at the David Ravin School of Architecture, UNC Charlotte, and director of the MycoMatters Lab. “They’re doing real biology to imagine a potential future.”

He agrees that the self-propagation and radiation-shielding qualities make fungi ideal for colonizing the low-resource, high-radiation landscapes of Mars and the moon, saying of the NASA project: “They’re working on having [structures] basically cultivate on their own through multi-organism cooperation, which is super exciting.’

Read the story at https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/9/29/growing-mushroom-houses-on-the-moon-nasas-fungus-filled-plan.