“Pretty Awesome Achievement” Of NASA: Recycling 98% Of Pee, Sweat To Turn It Into Drinkable Water

NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration has never failed to create wonders indeed. Once again, the international space organization has come up with a great yet eerie innovation. The space centre has created a technology through which 98 percent of the pee, sweat or any kind of water material can be collected to convert it to drinking water. This technology is innovated by the International Space Station’s Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) branch of NASA. ECLSS will be using “advanced dehumidifiers” to capture moisture from the breath and sweat of the station’s crew while they go on with their work normally.

The Urine Processor Assembly

There is a subsystem, which can be called the “Urine Processor Assembly” that can recover pee of astronauts with the help of vacuum distillation. As per information from NASA, the distillation process produces water and urine brine that still contains H20 that can be reclaimed.

The space organization recently started working on extracting that H₂O from the brine. Now because of the same, a system is developed that can help in getting 98 percent of the water recovered. However, earlier around 93 to 94 percent of the water was recovered.

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“A pretty awesome achievement,” exclaims ISS member

Christopher Brown, a team member of the International Space Station that manages life support systems expressed that this is a very important step. He stated, “This is a very important step forward in the evolution of life support systems.” He explained, “Let’s say you collect 100 pounds of water on the station. You lose two pounds of that and the other 98 percent just keeps going around and around. Keeping that running is a pretty awesome achievement.”

“Astronauts are not drinking each others’ urine,” says NASA

If the thought of someone else drinking their urine is causing you to gag, fret not. “The processing is fundamentally similar to some terrestrial water distribution systems, just done in microgravity,” said Jill Williamson, NASA’s ECLSS water subsystems manager. “The crew is not drinking urine; they are drinking water that has been reclaimed, filtered, and cleaned such that it is cleaner than what we drink here on Earth.”