Meet NASA innovators with visionary ideas powering new missions to the most extreme environments in and out of our solar system!
This online event features two futuristic concepts for the next frontiers of space exploration. As NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Fellows, the scientists behind these projects are creating innovative, technically credible, advanced concepts that could one day "change the possible" in aerospace.
- Lynn Rothschild will present the potential for off-planet mycotecture—structures built with mushroom mycelia (fungi). Instead of transporting bulky materials from Earth, this novel approach suggests sending lightweight structures made with dormant fungal spores that can be activated with water harvested at the destination and grown into durable, self-healing and radiation-protective habitats.
- Robert Hinshaw will discuss a proposal to protect astronauts from radiation-induced cell damage during longer deep space missions. This threat to long-term space habitation—with cellular effects equivalent to rapid aging—could be mitigated with a therapeutic process of using healthy mitochondria drawn from individuals before a mission and transplanted back once the space radiation exposure has begun.
Griffin MSI is proud to present From Science Fiction to Science Fact as the latest edition of a long-running partnership with NIAC.
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Tuesday, July 15, 2025 at 7 p.m. CDT on Zoom
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