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Europe Begins Testing Urine/Feces/Air Recycling Machine, After United States Has Similar System Up And Working Aboard International Space Station, Serving Crew Of Six

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Monday, June 8th, 2009

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The European Space Agency (ESA) is developing technologies that it hopes one day could result in a machine to convert human feces and urine, and exhaled carbon dioxide, into usable substances -- food, water and oxygen -- required to sustain life in space. ESA inaugurated a pilot plant in Barcelona, Spain, to pursue the technology. That event came just after the United States agency, NASA, announced that a more limited system installed aboard the International Space Station is working successfully…

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