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Urine-based astronaut food to be tested aboard ISS: ‘A key capability for the future of space exploration’

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Urine-based astronaut food to be tested aboard ISS: ‘A key capability for the future of space exploration’

Call it pee-cycling. Just in case people thought airline food was inedible: Astronauts on future missions to the Moon and Mars could subsist on a brand new “space food” that is concocted from thin air and urine, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced. “This project aims at developing a key resource which will allow us … Read more

Here’s how the stranded Boeing Starliner astronauts are passing the time on the ISS

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Here’s how the stranded Boeing Starliner astronauts are passing the time on the ISS

The stranded Space Station astronauts are keeping busy – by making pizza and dressing as pirates. Americans Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore found themselves marooned on the International Space Station (ISS) in June when the Boeing Starliner spacecraft they arrived on was deemed unsafe to fly back on. They were expecting to spend eight days … Read more