Would be interesting to know more detail of the orignal vison.
Here is how they made Tang in space. A waste of time and resouces in my opinion.
http://www.geekosystem.com/shuttle-urine-recycling/
If mankind is to move off this planet and survive beyond the planets accommodation, we have to move into space and learn how to live there. Like most such endeavors, there will be many follies and failures. Just like the Roanoke Colony was a failure, man will see failure and wasted effort in space. But, that's how we learn.
The alternative is to not try. For people that think like me, that is a much bigger waste and failure. How would a person ever know if they can swim across the pool if they, forever, make excuses not to go in the water??