NASA justified for breakage toilet ISS – Dni.Ru

NASA Coordinator of Public Relations at the Russian Mission Control Center Alexander Koptev said that no breakage urine recycling system (UPA) in the US segment of the ISS was not. According to him, the astronauts carried out a planned upgrade of this unit.

“A number of media hastened to declare the failure of the UPA system. So, I assure you, nothing abnormal is actually happening. The astronauts for six hours to service for the purpose of upgrade, and it was a scheduled event The works were successfully completed, everything works fine “, -. NASA representative quoting RIA Novosti.

Earlier, the Russian press reported that in the US segment of the ISS broke automatic urine processing. As the media reported, citing sources in the space industry, the astronauts have to keep the product of the human body waste in special containers.

In turn, the head of

the flight of the Russian segment of the ISS, Vladimir Solovyov, responding to reporters’ questions, said that the distilled water is obtained by processing in the US segment of the ISS from urine and solid astronauts waste, the plant does not drink. Instead, it uses pure silver-plated spring water delivered into orbit by Russian truck “Progress” in 22-liter barrels.

At the same time, he noted that “American distilled water, being essentially technical, needed mainly for catalysts and for supplemental oxygen in the Russian system” Electron. “Solovyov said that the Russian segment of the ISS have your required capacity for processing urine.