The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) invested hundreds of millions of dollars in potential replacements for the International Space Station (ISS), with Jeff Bezos’ Orbital Reef passing crucial milestones, including a urine recycling system, as the aging ISS faced maintenance issues and a planned retirement by 2030.
On March 20, NASA reported that Orbital Reef passed four key milestones for some of its most crucial technology, including a system to recycle future astronauts‘ and tourists’ urine.
Orbital Reef is a proposed low Earth orbit space station being designed by Blue Origin and Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Sierra Space for commercial space activities and space tourism uses.
