water purification

Good News! Astronauts are Drinking Almost all of Their Own Urine

Thanks to a new subsystem, called the Brine Processor Assembly (BPA) astronauts aboard the ISS can now recover most of…

1 year ago

‘Yesterday’s Coffee’: Drinking Urine In Space Could Preview Mars Exploration Techniques

"Here on board the ISS, we turn yesterday's coffee into tomorrow's coffee" is a slogan that sounds a little like…

11 years ago