The Environmental Control and Life Support System ... -Rose George

The Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS), which controls the living environment on shuttles and on the International Space Station, doesn't have the luxury of disposal: discharging trash into space has long been judged a bad idea.

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Because sanitation has so many effects across all aspects of development - it affects education, it affects health, it affects maternal mortality and ...
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What they have done in Japan, which I find so inspirational, is they've brought the toilet out from behind the locked door. They've made it conversati...
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Our schools, like so many parts of our infrastructure, are crumbling across the country. Healing our schools can and should be central to our fight to...
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