Water
Water is consumed by crew members through drinking, cleaning activities, EVA thermal control, and emergency uses. It must be stored, used, and reclaimed (from waste water) efficiently since no in-situ sources currently exist for the environments reached in the course of human space exploration.
Read more about this topic: Life Support System
Famous quotes containing the word water:
“All that could run or leap or swim
Whether in wood, water or cloud,
Acclaiming, proclaiming, declaiming Him.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
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—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)
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might return like gulls
to the rock. In the end,
the water was too cold for us.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)