{"id":107521,"date":"2020-05-23T11:43:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T18:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/how-nasa-is-recycling-urine-into-drinking-water"},"modified":"2020-05-23T11:43:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T18:43:34","slug":"how-nasa-is-recycling-urine-into-drinking-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/how-nasa-is-recycling-urine-into-drinking-water","title":{"rendered":"How NASA is recycling urine into drinking water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-nasa-is-recycling-urine-into-drinking-water.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a life support engineer at NASA Ames Research Center, it\u2019s Michael Flynn\u2019s job to keep astronauts alive in space, making sure they have the basic necessities like clean water to survive. But launching clean water into space is cost-prohibitive, so for years, Flynn and his team have been working on new ways to recycle waste water into safe, drinking water. SmartPlanet visits Flynn\u2019s lab and looks at how he\u2019s doing it through a process known as \u201cforward osmosis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/Smartplanet.com\">Smartplanet.com<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a life support engineer at NASA Ames Research Center, it\u2019s Michael Flynn\u2019s job to keep astronauts alive in space, making sure they have the basic necessities like clean water to survive. But launching clean water into space is cost-prohibitive, so for years, Flynn and his team have been working on new ways to recycle [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}