Astronauts' Dirty Laundry (2003)

Re:Astronauts' Dirty Laundry (2003) by imglorp on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @07:54AM (#25441935)

ISS has a circulating ammonia system for its active cooling loops. Maybe there's a way to leverage that system if you can filter the laundry contaminants before returning to the loop.

Also nobody's mentioned UV light. Odors are often due to bacteria and simply killing that stuff would go a long way to reusing garments without gagging on the odor.

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Re:Astronauts' Dirty Laundry (2003) by gambiting on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @05:25PM (#25449626)

Also, I know people have done experiments where instead of washing, they have been freezing their clothes and that gets rid of the odour. And surely, freezing things on ISS should be trivial.

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Re:Astronauts' Dirty Laundry (2003) by NullPrefix on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @05:45PM (#25449810)

So... Clotheslines between antennas?

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