The $23 million toilet on the International Space Station feeds a centrifuge-driven water recycler that reclaims 98 percent of urine, sweat, and cabin humidity — a closed-loop system NASA spent four decades getting right.
Somewhere above your head, roughly 400 kilometres up, an astronaut is drinking yesterday’s urine. Not metaphorically. The water in the bottle clipped to the wall of the International Space Station’s … [+11828 chars]