According to cnn.com, NASA needs a lot of pee.
This is so funny.
NASA: Give us your urine
"WASHINGTON (AP) -- The No. 1 need right now for some of the builders of the nation's next spaceship: Lots of urine.
A NASA contractor is seeking urine from space-program workers to test the toilets on the Orion space capsule.
The need is voluminous: 30 liters a day, which translates into nearly 8 gallons. Even on weekends.
Designers of the Orion, which will park unoccupied in space for up to six months while astronauts work on the moon, have to solve a pressing issue of getting rid of stored urine, said John Lewis, NASA's head of life support systems for Orion.
"Urine is a mess because urine is full of solids," Lewis said. Those solids clog the venting system for dumping pee, so keeping the waste disposal system clear is "really a challenge," he said.
NASA has a long-standing tradition of collecting samples from its workers to help design better space toilets because "you can't make fake urine," Lewis said.
The Connecticut-based company building the Orion toilet needs the large volume of urine (about the daily output of 30 people) to work on urine acidity problems, said spokesman Leo Makowski.
The memo seeking daily contributions from July 21 to July 31 was not meant to go public, he said."Not meant to go public. So good.
Thanks to cnn.com for the hilarity.
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Constellation U-rine!
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