US astronauts drink recycled urine aboard space station but Russians refuse

The crew had been forced to suspend the process in July due to the expiry of the filters on the urine-processing system, which finally arrived on the Japanese craft after two failed supply missions.

“Each greenback we spend money on Moscow is a greenback we’re not investing in American companies”, wrote Bolden, a former astronaut and the present administrator of NASA, the US area company. Iodine is a good choice as a disinfectant but it needs to also be filtered out before any of the crew members drink the water.

That’s the question astronauts have to answer before they go onto the worldwide Space Station for a tour of duty. Layne Carter, the water subsystem manager said that it tasted just like regular bottled water.

“HTV-5 capture was successful!” wrote space station astronaut Kimiya Yui of Japan, who piloted the robotic arm along with NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren, on Twitter after grappling the spacecraft. She said that it was all about getting past the psychological barrier that you are drinking recycled urine & condensate taken from the air.

In the event of an emergency, the station also has 2,000 liters of water on board to share between the two crews. But Alex MacDonald, program executive for NASA’s Emerging Space Office, wants a new first for private space exploration: privately-owned space stations. The Russian side uses ionized silver (with salts added to improve the taste) which doesn’t need to be filtered.

They later finished preservation on different study, taped the Russian part of the space station and is cleaned a casement framework to get rid of many years of soil quit by automobile exhaust from checking out boats.

Three space station crewmen strapped inside a Russian Soyuz spacecraft and relocated the landing capsule Friday, clearing a docking port for the arrival of a new crew next week. “It depends on our time availability”.