American Astronauts Drink Their Pee – But Russians Refuse

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Recycling urine into drinkable water means the ISS is its own self-contained environment. Africa Studio/Shutterstock.

The history of the Russian and American space programs has been a fraught one. But since the Space Race, when the Soviet Union and America strove to outdo each other in space-based technological prowess, relations between the two teams have improved significantly, even to the point they now cohabit the International Space Station (ISS).

But it appears one thing the two countries still can’t agree on is the necessity to drink their own urine.