The Morning After: Dune-inspired spacesuit recycles astronauts’ urine into drinkable water

A new space suit designed by scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell University, inspired by Frank Herbert’s Dune, could make spacewalks longer and less disgusting by recycling expelled urine in a special filtration backpack. The traditional NASA spacesuit design has been in circulation since the 1970s and only has an absorbent polymer to catch … Read more

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