On Episode 132 of This Week In House, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik speak with Lynn Rothschild on how mushroom mycelia may be utilized as a Mars habitat-building useful resource.?
This week, we’re diving deep into some actually intelligent and cutting-edge tech for Martian habitats… constructed from fungus! Dr. Rothschild of the NASA Ames Analysis Heart has been working for years on how the natural materials can be utilized to make bricks, to create formed buildings, and even to create an “astropharmacy” to provide sure compounds wanted by the crew of a Mars tour! And it’s sufficiently attractive that NASA’s NIAC innovation program has given her at least 5 grants (which aren’t straightforward to get!) to check the probabilities.
Be a part of us for this actually participating and blue-sky dialog!
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This Week in House covers the brand new house age. Each Friday we take a deep dive into an enchanting subject. What’s taking place with the brand new race to the moon and different planets? When will SpaceX actually ship folks to Mars?
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Rod Pyle is an writer, journalist, tv producer and Editor-in-Chief of Advert Astra journal. He has written 18 books on house historical past, exploration, and growth, together with House 2.0, Innovation the NASA Method, Interplanetary Robots, Blueprint for a Battlestar, Wonderful Tales of the House Age, First On the Moon, and Vacation spot Mars
In a earlier life, Rod produced quite a few documentaries and brief movies for The Historical past Channel, Discovery Communications, and Disney. He additionally labored in visible results on Star Trek: Deep House 9 and the Battlestar Galactica reboot, in addition to varied sci-fi TV pilots. His most up-to-date TV credit score was with the NatGeo documentary on Tom Wolfe’s iconic guide The Proper Stuff.
Accountable for House.com’s editorial imaginative and prescient, Tariq Malik has been the Editor-in-Chief of House.com since 2019 and has coated house information and science for 18 years. He joined the House.com workforce in 2001, first as an intern and shortly after as a full-time spaceflight reporter protecting human spaceflight, exploration, astronomy and the evening sky. He turned House.com’s managing editor in 2009. As on-air expertise has offered house tales on CNN, Fox Information, NPR and others.
Tariq is an Eagle Scout (sure, he earned the House Exploration benefit badge), a House Camp veteran (4 instances as a child, as soon as as an grownup), and has taken the last word “vomit comet” journey whereas reporting on zero-gravity fires. Earlier than becoming a member of House.com, he served as a workers reporter for The Los Angeles Instances protecting metropolis and schooling beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.
