HOUSTON (AP) — After several days without luck, astronauts finally ran a successful test on equipment that turns 
urine into drinking water — a necessity for supporting the international space station’s crew, which will soon double.
The urine processor makes up a section of the $154 million water recycling system that was delivered to the space station by the shuttle Endeavour. The machine is crucial to providing drinking water for the space station’s crew, which is supposed to double to six members next year.
Normally, samples of the processed urine, sweat and condensation would be tested on Earth before astronauts can start drinking the purified water. In an effort to reduce expenditures, NASA has scrapped those plans and will launch the recycled urine program on 1 December 2008.
Filed under: This Modern Life | Tagged: Economy, Environment, NASA, Recycle
got to get this protest of fill into the estuary, Cattermole, on…
your site is interesting
I visit the NASA site too!