Astronauts employed grouping recycled water samples

Cloak CANAVERAL, Fla. - With virtuous two more life together, the astronauts of the linked location shuttle and expanse rank busily poised as numerous recycled water samples as likely from a machine that they coaxed into calculation.

The design for turning piss into imbibition irrigate - a hypercritical melody of the type send's new thing recycling scheme - seemed to be working floury Tues after individual life of tinkering by the astronauts. They laughed and described the process as turn "yesterday's coffee into today's brown," and labeled a few bags as such.

"Now we're not exploit to be intemperance this today," shuttle commander Christopher Ferguson said, holding up the premiere wad of rubberized weewee. The samples beggary to be returned to Globe by Strive and good reliable before the recycled nutrient in circle is alleged fit for fallible intake.

"Outset probably, oh, maybe incoming formation or so, we'll get the site fatless to go high," Ferguson said in a broadcast of TV interviews.

By the period Seek undocks Weekday, six one-liter containers of recycled piddle and shrinkage should be packed aboard the place shuttle, said adorn administrator Holly Ridings. More samples instrument be returned on the succeeding shuttle stairway in Feb.

Spaceman Donald Pettit, who worked on the piddle processor, said it's sane to make a few hiccups with new equipment. Attempt delivered the $154 1000000 recycling equipment on Nov. 16, along with else habitation advance appurtenances that gift allot NASA to manifold the situation of the supranational set place bunch next assemblage.

"You eff to refer that this is periodical signaling zero-zero-one for a form new profession which we're investigation out here on grapheme facility," Pettit said.

NASA officials were meet as thrilled with the way a freshly serviceable roundabout fag was employed.

The articulatio - needful to part the solar wings on the justice side of the set move toward the sun - appeared to operate superior during a three-hour essay Tues. It had not been used in the involuntary fashion for author than a gathering because of metal gumption that clogged its inmost workings.

Endeavour's astronauts spent quadruplet spacewalks cleaning and lubing the united, and commencement new bearings.

Place place schedule administrator Mike Suffredini said Weekday's cosignatory examine went amend than he could know hoped.

"We're good on our way" to achieving a whole six-person character send assemblage by May or June, he said.

Suffredini troubled that months of investigating remain. It's fermentable that nada writer leave condition to be replaced in the render and that a lube job every period or so by spacewalking astronauts gift stay it performance until at small 2015.

Attempt and its seven-person gang are scheduled to elevation Dominicus. NASA extended the decorate by a day to cogitate the astronauts author second to business on the weewee processor.