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 * Your Source List: "STS-126 Extreme Home Improment" by NASA 2008**

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 * What is your topic? STS-126 Extreme Home Improvement**
 * State the focus of your research: Environmental Control and Life Support**

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Parts of Environmental control and life support Water Recory System Oxygen Generation System Waste and Hygiene Compartment Total Organic Carbon Analyzer

Water Recovery System Uses chemicals and filters to treat astronaunts' urine, perspiration, and hygiene water. They provide clean water to drink.

Distillation Procces Uses rotating distillation assmbley because of the absence of gravity. Once distilled the water combines with waste water to the water processor.

Water Processor Removes the gas and solid materials such as hair and lint. Any mircoorganisms are removed by a high-temperature catalytic reactor. The treatment creates water that can be drank.

During docked operations, the Expedition 18 and STS-126 crew will transfer the Water Recovery System, a toiley, and the Waste and Hygiene Compartment to the Destiny Lab.

The crew will activate the Organic Carbon Analyzer that will monitor water quality.

Engineers att Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala and and at Hamilton Sundstand Space Systems International Inc, Windsor Locks, Conn designed and built the Water Recovery System.

The Environmental Control and life Support System can cut the water lauched into space by 15,000 pounds per year. It also provides oxygen for consumption Provides portable water for all uses Removes Carbon Dioxide Filters mircoorganisms Removes volatile organic traces

The WRS recycles urine and washing water used by the onboard astronauts to provide potable supply. Water is initially reclaimed from urine using distillation, the process taking place in a purpose-built rotating distillation unit that compensates for the station's absence of gravity, thus facilitating the separation of liquids and gases in the zero-g environment. After the distillation phase, this water is combined with the other wastewater streams and enters the water processor assem So astronauts on the International Space Station have to recapture every possible drop. That includes water evaporated from showers, shaving, tooth brushing and hand washing, plus perspiration and water vapor that collects within the astronauts' space suits. They even transfer water from the fuel cells that provide electric power to the space shuttle. bly itself for treatment. Here free gas and solids, such as hair, are removed from the wastewater before the flow enters a series of filter units. Subsequently any remaining micro-organisms, organic inclusions or other contaminants are removed by high-temperature catalysis.
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WHAT: The latest addition to the International Space Station life support system, the Water Recovery System, is targeted to launch Nov. 14 on the next space shuttle mission. This new water reclamation system will recycle wastewater from urine and crew perspiration. The vital space station hardware is the second part of a comprehensive life support system developed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The first part of the system, the Oxygen Generation System, was launched on space shuttle Discovery in July 2006. The two systems are part of NASA's Regenerative Environmental Control and Life Support System, or ECLSS, for the station. Recycling water reduces the crew's dependence on Earth resupply. It can reduce the need for outside water and consumables by about 15,000 pounds per year. Together, this closed-loop water and oxygen life support system is essential to allowing up to six crew members to live and work aboard the orbiting laboratory. WHO: Bob Bagdigian, project manager, NASA's Regenerative Environmental Control and Life Support System WHEN: Friday, Oct. 31, 2008, 2 p.m. CDT WHERE: U.S. Space & Rocket Center, One Tranquility Base, Huntsville. The media availability will take place in front of model Water Recovery System racks in the rear of the museum, between the neutral buoyancy tank and a gift shop. So astronauts on the International Space Station have to recapture every possible drop. That includes water evaporated from showers, shaving, tooth brushing and hand washing, plus perspiration and water vapor that collects within the astronauts' space suits. They even transfer water from the fuel cells that provide electric power to the space shuttle. "If we were going to Mars tomorrow, this is the water treatment system astronauts might well use," Flynn said. He is developing it in cooperation with Water Reuse Technology, Inc., Garden Valley, Calif. "This unit can enable a six- person crew to shower, wash clothes and dishes, drink water and flush toilets over three years without resupply," Flynn said. Water - it's essential for life. When future [|space] explorers venture beyond [|low Earth orbit], their only [|water] supply will be on board their spacecraft. During the final space shuttle flight, NASA scientists plan to have astronauts test in microgravity a new method for [|recycling] "used" water. The idea is to make a fortified drink that provides hydration and nutrients from all sources available aboard a spacecraft, such as wastewater and even urine. The method set for testing uses a process known as forward osmosis