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This is an interesting one - a small-scale, student-led series of high-altitude balloon experiments to build a functioning greenhouse system for space plants. The CO2 needed is provided by fungal mycelium.
https://spacebotany.uk/blog/can-high-flying-fungi-help-plants-breathe-in-space/
Researchers grew mushrooms from mycelium that spent a month in space - and they were delicious!
https://spacebotany.uk/blog/we-ate-space-mushrooms-and-survived-to-tell-the-tale/
Shroom with a view?
American architecture firm Red House is working with NASA & the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms to build new bio-habitats - homes made from living organisms - in space.
Red House is mixing the waste biomass from Namibia’s infamous "encroacher bush" - an invasive species that drains groundwater, causing fertile areas to become deserts - with mycelium, a fungus whose structure is an underground network of connecting fibres.
“According to mushroom growers and scientists designing future foods for astronauts, there are a lot of good reasons why fungi might make an important contribution to spacefaring humans' diets, from their nutritional profile to their ability to grow quickly in dark, confined spaces.”