Politics | 11/14/2008 3:30 pm
Shuttle Launch Shocker: Crew Is Drinking Recycled Urine

NASA astronauts — launching into outer space today — should keep away from eating asparagus.
That’s because the vegetable is known to make your pee stink … and that’s exactly what the crew onboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour (which launches later today) will be drinking. According to the BBC, the six-person team will be using a water regeneration system that recycles their fluids. The system distills, filters, ionizes and oxidizes wastewater — including urine — into fresh water for drinking, reports the BBC.
As one astronaut said, it "will make yesterday’s coffee into today’s coffee."
Sounds out of this world but, according to one astronaut, the recycled wee-wee is actually purer than the H2O we drink on Earth. The only complaint was that it tastes like iodine. Guess we’ll have to take their word for it. No one here is volunteering to get their own water regeneration system to test it.






















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