NASA - Glitch with urine recycler could cause Endeavour mission extension ...

NASA on Friday was trouble shooting a problem with a state-of-the-art urine reprocessor delivered to the International Space Station by the space shuttle Endeavour.

There appeared to be a problem with a centrifuge on a distillation component of the Urine Processor Assembly, flight director Courtenay McMillan said Friday.

It could simply be that a sensor was causing the system to shut off as astronauts tried to run tests on the system that will turn urine and sweat into drinkable water.

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NASA's space water recycling system has hiccups

NASA's revolutionary new space water recycling system is having serious hiccups. The $154 million device for turning astronauts' urine and sweat into drinking water aboard the international space station shut down again Friday, and engineers on the ground were scrambling to figure out what was wrong.

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