US astronauts drink recycled urine aboard space station but Russians refuse

American and Russian astronauts use separate water filtration systems on ISS, as Nasa astronauts also collect Russian urine when available to increase supply

What's the difference between American and Russian astronauts on the International Space Station? The Americans drink their urine, the Russians don't.

"It tastes like bottled water," Layne Carter, water subsystem manager for the ISS at Nasa's Marshall Space Flight Center told Bloomberg. "As long as you can psychologically get past the point that it's recycled urine and condensate that comes out of the air."