How Astronauts Turn Pee into Drinking Water

for certain , there ’s no breeze in space . But once you ’ve overcome that rather pressing insufficiency , you ’ve got to consider with another one : no water . Thanks to scientific discipline , cosmonaut can solve that trouble by just drink pee . Zero - G YouTuber and ISS astrodinaire Chris Hadfield explains .

Until a few old age ago , water had to be shipped up to spacestronauts in bags , alongside their food , but a fairly monstrous centrifugal distiller has switch all that , and the effect is purify pee that ’s fair than any water you ’ve had in your mouth recently . Good to know we ’ll be ready to mine for spicery on Arrakis when the chance present itself . Hopefully by then the distiller will be a shade modest . [ YouTube ]

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