First let me say that typing in ‘glass of pee’ in Google Images has some disturbing results. But no matter how disturbing seeing the pictures was, the thought of drinking piss is still worse. Sure I know it is filtered, but it is a mental thing. That is why I failed out of the NASA program.

The three crew members of the International Space Station raised plastic pouches in a toast of their first taste of urine that had been recycled into drinkable water. “The taste is great,” said Michael R. Barratt, left, a flight engineer. A recycling system, installed last fall, purifies the urine. Recycling is crucial, especially with the station crew expanding to six people this month, because of the cost of transporting water from Earth. At the station’s mission control room in Houston, people cheered and drank similarly recycled water. A distillation unit in the system initially proved balky, and a replacement was brought up and installed in March. After the system passed tests, the station’s two astronauts and one cosmonaut finally took a sip.

Do you think it is purified so much it takes out the asparagus smell even? Did I cross the line? Sorry. And if you don’t know what I am talking about, you need to eat asparagus.

(Via NY Times)