TANG for the 21st Century

With astronauts again in space and in the news, I thought I would pass on this little bit of news. NASA recently unveiled a $250 million machine to be used on the International Space Station that will recycle urine into water for drinking, food preparation and washing. The shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to take the machine to the station this fall before the station's crew doubles next year from three to six members, who will require more water than can be shipped into space.

TANG for the 21st Century

Remember the Tang of your youth
And how astronauts got us to drink it
Well we’ve Tang for the new generation
What’s in it? You don’t want to think it
You see water is scarce up in space
But liquid’s a whole other matter
They gather up all they can get
Every dribble, every drop, every splatter
It’s distilled and filtered to capture
Every particle – lint – even hairs
It’s heated, then cooled then bottled
It’s the new Tang that everyone shares
They say it’s as clean as tap water
They have to say that of course
But it got a big psychological hang up
When you think of this new water’s source

So if water’s your problem for drinking
We’ve a solution that fit to a T
A engineer got it just thinking
Man, do I have to pee!

Mdailey
05/29/08