Erin Wynne

Have you ever wondered what your urine tastes like?

nWell lucky for astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS), they will soon find out.

After several attempts to fix this new operating system, all systems go for this new, unique but revolting, contraption.

After about five days of fiddling around, ISS astronauts ran two successful tests of equipment on board, designed to turn urine, sweat, and moisture from the air into drinking water.

This $154 million water recycling system is part of a $250 million regenerative life support system designed to sustain larger space station crews with fewer supply drop-offs from visiting spacecrafts.

At first, the machine could not last the four hours needed for a successful test run at the time.

The machine first ran for five hours until the flight controllers restarted it during early morning one night.

The astronauts that operated the system again just a few hours later. Everything has thus far proved to be successful.

“Not to spoil anything, but I think the appropriate words are ‘Yipee!’ said space station commander Mike Fincke as he spoke to Mission Control.

It has even been reported that NASA added a 16th day of the astronauts mission in hopes that they could get the urine processor to work and flow better.

Samples of the processed urine and sweat will be tested on Earth before confirmation that astronauts can begin drinking the purified water next year.

According to NASA, if everything goes as planned, the water made from urine will then be added to the nutritious and hearty astronaut menu

Have you ever wondered what your urine tastes like?

nWell lucky for astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS), they will soon find out.

After several attempts to fix this new operating system, all systems go for this new, unique but revolting, contraption.

After about five days of fiddling around, ISS astronauts ran two successful tests of equipment on board, designed to turn urine, sweat, and moisture from the air into drinking water.

This $154 million water recycling system is part of a $250 million regenerative life support system designed to sustain larger space station crews with fewer supply drop-offs from visiting spacecrafts.

At first, the machine could not last the four hours needed for a successful test run at the time.

The machine first ran for five hours until the flight controllers restarted it during early morning one night.

The astronauts that operated the system again just a few hours later. Everything has thus far proved to be successful.

“Not to spoil anything, but I think the appropriate words are ‘Yipee!’ said space station commander Mike Fincke as he spoke to Mission Control.

It has even been reported that NASA added a 16th day of the astronauts mission in hopes that they could get the urine processor to work and flow better.

Samples of the processed urine and sweat will be tested on Earth before confirmation that astronauts can begin drinking the purified water next year.

According to NASA, if everything goes as planned, the water made from urine will then be added to the nutritious and hearty astronaut menu