Space Daily July 22, 2026 • 01:26

The ISS toilet costs $23 million and separates urine into a centrifuge that recycles 98% of it back into drinking water — a closed-loop system that took NASA 40 years to perfect - Space Daily

The ISS toilet costs $23 million and separates urine into a centrifuge that recycles 98% of it back into drinking water — a closed-loop system that took NASA 40 years to perfect - Space Daily

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]

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