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New space suit to turn urine into drinking water

With NASA’s upcoming Artemis missions, the demand for astronauts to carry out longer and longer s...

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15.22 16 Jul 2024


New space suit to turn urine into drinking water


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15.22 16 Jul 2024


With NASA’s upcoming Artemis missions, the demand for astronauts to carry out longer and longer spacewalks creates a challenge for the use of bathroom facilities. Now, designers have invented a special space suit that can recycle urine as drinking water. 

To discuss, Seán is joined by Sofia Etlin, a researcher at Weill Cornell Medicine and co-designer of the suit.

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