Divergent Deployable Wastewater Treatment Facility

Crops grown hydroponically using nutrient solutions derived from NASA’s Divergent Deployable Wastewater Treatment Facility, designed to turn crew wastewater into useful resources, are seen at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, April 21, 2026. Built at NASA Kennedy, the system of bioreactors housed in an 8.5-by-24-foot trailer will be transported to University of North Dakota, in Grand Forks, North Dakota, where it will be integrated with the university's Integrated Lunar/Martian Analog Habitat, for student operators and NASA researchers to study how the facility performs when connected to a habitat-like environment and exposed to the kinds of operational limits crews could face during long-duration missions on the Moon and Mars.