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Imagine landing on the Moon… and instead of unpacking building materials, You start growing your habitat… Like a mushroom. The process begins by collecting lunar regolith from the Moon’s surface and mixing it with mycelium and organic nutrients. The mycelium...
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Image: Students growing plants in lunar regolith simulant. Imagine walking into your classroom and seeing students not just learning about space, but building it, testing it, and questioning it like real engineers. That’s exactly what happens when you introduce regolith...
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NASA’s latest announcement under its “Ignition” initiative signals a major shift in how we approach space exploration, and more importantly, how we prepare for it. Rather than focusing on isolated missions, NASA is moving toward sustained lunar surface operations: higher mission...
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As we prepare to return to the Moon, one reality becomes unavoidable: Everything interacts with lunar regolith. Rovers drive through it. Excavators cut into it. Dust infiltrates seals and degrades systems. ISRU processes depend on it. And yet, one critical...
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Space agencies and research groups around the world are working to answer one of the biggest questions for future space exploration to the Moon and Mars: how will humans grow food beyond Earth? On the International Space Station, NASA’s Veggie...
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