L'Affaire Siloxane - by Maciej Cegłowski
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How antiperspirant fumes nearly got NASA to evacuate the space station
In the early years of the International Space Station, water needed to keep the crew alive had to be delivered by Space Shuttle at a cost several times its weight in gold. By 2005, over 9,000 kilograms of the stuff had been flown up from Earth to keep astronauts hydrated, while a further 7,000 kilograms of treated urine were sitting in orbital storage tanks, waiting to be processed. In November 2008, the Water Processing Assembly arrived on the ISS to realize the great dream of space exploration: boiling astronaut pee. The 800 kilogram Urine Processing Assembly would help take the station…
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