Task & Purpose photo composite. Background: NASA's Space Launch System with Orion spacecraft aboard seen on its mobile launcher at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, Aug. 17, 2022 (Joel Kowsky/NASA). Foreground: Aspergillus niger prepared using the freeze drying method (Mogana Das Murtey and Patchamuthu Ramasamy, Wikipedia Commons).“Fungi have been forgotten for the past 20 or 30 years, but it's time to go back to them."

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