New space suit to turn urine into drinking water

Published: July 16, 2024, 3:22 p.m.

With NASA\u2019s upcoming Artemis missions, the demand for astronauts to carry out longer and longer spacewalks creates a challenge for the use of bathroom facilities. Now, designers have invented a special space suit that can recycle urine as drinking water. 

To discuss, Se\xe1n is joined by Sofia Etlin, a researcher at Weill Cornell Medicine and co-designer of the suit.

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