NASA developing recycled Urine for Drinking!
Believe it or not, NASA is looking to recycle astronauts’ urine so they have more water supply. Good idea or not?
Among the ship’s cargo, which will help prepare the station for an expanded six-person crew, is a water regeneration system that, as one astronaut puts it, “will make yesterday’s coffee into today’s coffee”.
“It’s one of these great circle-of-life things,” explained Don Pettit, a former space station science officer serving as a mission specialist aboard Endeavour.
The new system distils, filters, ionizes and oxidizes wastewater – including urine — into fresh water for drinking.
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