Butch Wilmore
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Do you drink coffee?
I don't either.
Yeah, I'm not either.
Anyway, so today's drink, whatever you drink, is tomorrow's drink.
Oh, no.
You drink, you process, you expel.
Wow.
We collect that expel.
We separate the good urine from the bad urine.
The bad urine we put in containers and save it, and eventually it comes back on cargo spacecraft.
Oh, it seems like you could just let that go.
The good part, we process and zap it with high energy and filters, and we drink it tomorrow.
So you go up there well hydrated then.
It is the best tasting water I've ever tasted.
I'm glad I wasn't part of the process during the, you know.
The testing phase.
The figuring out phase.
But now that it's done, it is great.
Yeah, you'd think it'd have a little mustiness to it, right?
But the bad part of the urine, the brine, we call it brine, we can keep in these big metal containers, and we store those until the cargo spacecraft eventually departs.