In addition to making a breakthrough by creating a space station, the U.S. space agency (Nasa) has created a tool worth 250 million U.S. dollars to recycle urine into potable astronauts.
"We have a lot of reviewing the content of urine is needed and wanted," said David Korth, NASA flight director, Irene Krotz as reported by Reuters.
Space station project was worth 100 billion U.S. dollars involving 16 nations. The station was built 220 miles up in space for more than a decade. Before recycling began November 2008, NASA has successfully tested first.
"People will have the broad knowledge of the art water content, but the chemistry change as a work that sometimes professors do not always understand. There are many parameters of calcium in urine and the pH (acid levels)," said scientist Julie Robinson.
Meanwhile, the engineers Marshall space flight center in Huntsville, Alabama, hoping to repair space shuttle Endeavor on time as scheduled launch on February 7, 2010 in order to carry out space station construction mission.
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