Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Yummy!
Space urine to be recycled into drinking water.

ORLANDO, FL-- The countdown is underway for NASA's planned launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour Friday.

The mission will carry astronauts and a one of a kind sewage treatment plant to the International Space Station.

The new system is efficient enough even turn urine into clean drinking water.

Astronaut sandy Magnus will start up the water recycling system after it's transferred from the shuttle to the space station.

"There's five containers of waste water from the Russian toilet to start the regeneration system going," said Magnus.

Of course they will bring a sample back to earth for testing before the astronauts start drinking it.


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