{"id":124651,"date":"2021-07-06T21:24:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T04:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/chinas-space-station-recycles-66-liters-of-urine-in-3-weeks-to-support-crew"},"modified":"2021-07-06T21:24:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T04:24:12","slug":"chinas-space-station-recycles-66-liters-of-urine-in-3-weeks-to-support-crew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/chinas-space-station-recycles-66-liters-of-urine-in-3-weeks-to-support-crew","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s space station recycles 66 liters of urine in 3 weeks to support crew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-space-station-recycles-66-liters-of-urine-in-3-weeks-to-support-crew.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the Shenzhou-12 crew of three taikonauts has lived for nearly three weeks in China\u2019s Tianhe space station core module, the urine treatment system in the module has recycled 66 liters of urine and treated it into distilled water to support the crew, the Global Times learned from the system designers on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>This urine treatment system \u2014 a sub-system of the life support system \u2014 was devised by Chinese scientists with the 206 Research Institute of the Second Academy of the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp (CASIC). The developers told the Global Times that this is the nation\u2019s first engineering application of the system, and its good performance shows how China\u2019s space station construction work has advanced.<\/p>\n<p>All indicators of the distilled water have reached the standards for usage, and the mission planners have unanimously recognized this outstanding performance, the institute said in a statement it sent to the Global Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Shenzhou-12 crew of three taikonauts has lived for nearly three weeks in China\u2019s Tianhe space station core module, the urine treatment system in the module has recycled 66 liters of urine and treated it into distilled water to support the crew, the Global Times learned from the system designers on Tuesday. This urine [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124651","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}