New spacesuit turns urine into drinking water in minutes

American astronaut Joseph Tanner on a space walk
at the International Space Station in September 2006
(Getty Images)

Astronauts on future Nasa missions could be drinking recycled urine from inside their spacesuits after researchers came up with a novel approach to waste management. 

Scientists at Cornell University in the US unveiled a prototype filtration system that filters wastewater into potable water within just five minutes. 

Modelled on the ‘stillsuits’ in the sci-fi series Dune, the researchers say the spacesuit could be deployed in Nasa’s Artemis programme, which aims to return humans to the surface of the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years.

By Anthony Cuthbertson.

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