Houston we have a podcast welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson

Space Center episode 293 deep space hydration. I'm Gary Jordan and I'll be

host today on this podcast we bring the expert scientists engineers and

astronauts all to let you know what's going on in the world of human space

flight and more part of what makes human space flight as fascinating as it is

challenging is the well human factor humans are very needy in space we need it

to be a good pressure good temperature we need sleep food air water exercise

seems pretty standard for a stuck here on earth but for engineers designing

human space crafts and systems it's a huge consideration especially as we

travel farther away from earth on the space station we've gotten pretty good

at sustaining humans in fact we've done it for more than 22 years continuously at

this point one system used on board stations literally every day is the

potable water dispenser exactly what it sounds like it's a system that dispenses

potable or drinking water astronauts use it every day to rehydrate their

astronaut food and to drink and they've been using it since it arrived on

station on SDS 126 in 2008 for Artemis missions we're looking into how to make

the system even better and making some upgrades on its reliability and

functionality enter the exploration potable water dispenser the water dispenser

of the future this facility just recently launched to the station on the

Northrop Grumman CRS 19 cargo mission because what better way to find out if

the system can work in space for a long time then to put it in space for a

long time to walk us through the system's design and features as well as the

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