Water Recycling Is Paramount for Space Stations and Long-Duration Missions

Water recycling is paramount for space stations and long-duration missions

When you're on a camping trip, you might have to pack your own food and maybe something to filter or treat water that you find. But imagine your campsite is in space, where there's no water, and packing jugs of water would take up room when every inch of cargo space counts. That's a key challenge engineers faced when designing the International Space Station.

Water recycling is paramount for space stations and long-duration missions − an environmental engineer explains how the ISS does it

The water recovery system on the ISS is state of the art. Roscosmos State Space Corporation via AP, FileWhen you’re on a camping trip, you might have to pack your own food and maybe something to filter or treat water that you find. But imagine your campsite is in space, where there’s no water, and packing jugs of water would take up room when every inch of cargo space counts. That’s a key challenge engineers faced when designing the Internationa…

Water recycling is paramount for space stations and long-duration missions − an environmental engineer explains how the ISS does it - Tech and Science Post

When you’re on a camping trip, you might have to pack your own food and maybe something to filter or treat water that you find. But imagine your campsite is in space, where there’s no water, and packing jugs of water would take up room when every inch of cargo space counts. That’s a key challenge engineers faced when designing the International Space Station. Before NASA developed an advanced water recycling system, water made up nearly half the