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NASA astronauts to drink their own urine

As the space shuttle Endeavour raced toward the International Space Station on Sunday, nothing did more for crew bonding than a water-recycling device that will process the astronaut's urine for communal consumption.Delivery of the $ 250 million wastewater recycling gear is among the primary goals of National Aeronautics and Space Administration's 124th shuttle mission that thundered off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida today with a 32,000-pound payload.