While touring the NASA Ames Research Center, Electronic Products got a close-up look at the machine that can transform urine into viable drinking water. This system can recycle all waste water ...

HOUSTON -- Astronauts tinkered Sunday with a troublesome piece of equipment designed to help convert urine and sweat into drinkable water, which is vital to allowing the international space station ...

Even blowing bubbles in water is cooler in space. NASA astronaut Jack Fischer showed off a cool experiment aboard the International Space Station where he blew a large water bubble that covered his ...

Astronauts live a life very different from people on Earth, mainly due to zero gravity in space. Their diet and lifestyle are carefully planned to ensure they remain healthy and fit during missions.

Sustaining life aboard a spacecraft is a shrewd game of resource management. Astronauts must maximize all resources, extracting every possible benefit before “waste” can truly be called waste. Given ...