US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has achieved significant success with the urine of astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS). In the statement of the institution, thanks to the studies, the urine of astronauts 98 percent It was stated that a significant portion of it was converted back into drinking water. While this may sound disgusting to you, it’s critically important to humans in space.

As you can imagine, resources in space not unlimited. Every resource used counts, especially when it comes to food. Drinking water is one such resource. After all, it is not possible to lay a water pipe from Earth to the ISS. Here’s a new study from NASA that up to 98 percent of astronauts’ urine back to drinking water be converted as long as. Formerly urine as much as 93 percent was converted into drinking water.

Astronauts drink cleaner water than on Earth

NASA official Jill Williamson, who issued a statement on the subject, spoke of converting urine back into drinking water as follows: Crew does not drink urine; it is reclaimed, filtered and sanitized drinking water that is cleaner than anything we drink in the world. Now let’s get to the main issue. NASA’s urine How does it make drinking water?

Environmental control and life support system on the ISS (ECLSSThere is a system called . It is this system that converts urine into drinking water. Now let’s do some biology: More than 95 percent of urine is water anyway. The rest contains molecules such as urea, potassium, sodium and chloride. Built-in ECLSS purification systemIt separates the water in the urine from the other molecules and ensures that the water in the urine can be drunk again. So with ECLSS distillation processIt ensures that the clean water is excreted in the urine and this water is drunk again…