Re: Shuttle water dump

From: TLN (tomnagy@nauticom.net)
Date: Sat Mar 10 2001 - 09:31:23 PST

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    Most of the water that is dumped comes from purified urine.
    
    For some reason no one wants to drink it.
    
    On 9 Mar 01, at 17:17, Ed Davies wrote:
    
    > Dale Ireland wrote:
    > > What is the source of the water? Power units? Dishwashing?
    > 
    > Fuel cells.  
    > 
    > Oxygen + hydrogen -> electricity + heat + water
    > 
    > Some water is kept for drinking, etc, - the rest goes overboard.  There's a 
    > contingency mechanism to dump waste water but normally it comes back down with 
    > orbiter.
    > 
    > See:
    > 
    > <http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/technology/sts-newsref/sts-eps.html#sts-fuel-cell>
    > <http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/technology/sts-newsref/sts_eclss.html#sts_eclss>
    > 
    > and particularly:
    > 
    > <http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/technology/sts-newsref/sts-eclss-wcl.html>
    > 
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