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[Previous entry: "Giant marrionettes used to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Jules Verne's death."] [Main Index] [Next entry: "Dogs cloned!"] 08/01/2005 Entry: "NASA to go all Waterworld on us." NASA to go all Waterworld on us. I've come to the Biggest Little City in the World to drink my own pee. Not straight up, of course. First, I'll run it through a new NASA water purification system that collects astronaut sweat, moisture from respiration, drain water, and urine - and turns it all into drinking water. NASA desperately needs this technology. Water makes for a heavy - and expensive - payload. Over the past five years, the agency has spent $60 million delivering potable water to the International Space Station on the space shuttle (6 tons at a cost of about $40,000 per gallon). Deploying the Water Recovery System on the ISS will cut the volume of water hauled into space by two-thirds and free up enough room on the shuttle for four more astronauts.