Space Shuttle Endeavour, Exoplanets, NASA's Mike Griffin - This Week at Discovery Space

November 17, 2008

Here's your look at last week's big space happenings and plans for next week at Discovery Space:

Questions? Comments? Concerns? Complaints? Insults? Send 'em here: DiscoverySpace@Discovery.com

Some links:

• Turning Astronaut Pee Into Water
• First Exoplanet Photos Snagged by Astronomers
• Top 10 Strangest Things in Space
• About Discovery Space

P.S. Below is a pic of the new $19 million potty for the space station -- aka the "waste and hygiene compartment." Granted, it's complex -- but why does NASA not call it what it is?
It's a toilet.
The end.

P.S.S. Here's that pee-recycling machine. Its real name is a bit more acceptable -- "water recovery system."