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NASA achieves crucial water recovery goal on ISS

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Image Credit: NASA

NASA is working on life support systems that can recycle consumables like food and water and is testing them on the International Space Station (ISS). The life support systems, under ideal circumstances, are required to recover about 98% of the water that the astronauts bring to the orbiting space lab for their tenure. The space agency has now achieved that crucial milestone.