Why NASA Designed a New $23 Million Space Toilet

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Why NASA Designed a New $23 Million Space
Toilet.

Why NASA Designed a New $23 Million Space Toilet

Later this year, astronauts on the American module of the ISS will be able to test out the toilet before NASA puts it on crewed vehicles for deep-space missions.

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Richard

 

[PigsDad]

$23 million. That puts the sticker shock of our bathroom renovation in perspective.

Kurt

 

[bbodb1]

As I grow older, this reaction is all too frequent.

 

[pedro47]

Why NASA Designed a New $23 Million Space
Toilet.

Why NASA Designed a New $23 Million Space Toilet

Later this year, astronauts on the American module of the ISS will be able to test out the toilet before NASA puts it on crewed vehicles for deep-space missions.

www.wired.com

Richard

LOL.. I guess this was the lowest bid to NASA....... By the time this space toilet is install, it will cost the American tax payers 40 million dollars to do #2 in private.

 

[Conan]

"Since 2008, astronauts’ urine has been chemically treated and processed, which turns it back into potable water that is re-consumed. Astronaut Don Pettit summed it up well when he said, ‘Yesterday’s coffee becomes today’s coffee’."

Humans in space

Space might be the final frontier, but astronauts still need to eat, sleep, breathe, and all that other human stuff.

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[PigsDad]

"Since 2008, astronauts’ urine has been chemically treated and processed, which turns it back into potable water that is re-consumed. Astronaut Don Pettit summed it up well when he said, ‘Yesterday’s coffee becomes today’s coffee’."

Shouldn't surprise anyone. In fact, in a larger scale, that is what happens in our cities and towns as well. Living at 5000 feet above sea level, I guarantee that some of what I flush down my toilet ends up in someone else's water tap downstream.

Kurt

 

[bbodb1]

Shouldn't surprise anyone. In fact, in a larger scale, that is what happens in our cities and towns as well. Living at 5000 feet above sea level, I guarantee that some of what I flush down my toilet ends up in someone else's water tap downstream.

Kurt

Right there is our ewwwwww moment of the day...