Post by siampolee on Mar 14, 2024 11:41:01 GMT 7
Everyone Gets A Personal Nozzle To Use In The Bathroom
Everyone poops, including astronauts, and it all has to go somewhere. Early Moon missions used bags, tubes, and diapers to gather and contain human waste, but this was obviously not ideal.
Even today, though, the toilet on the ISS is an expensive and precarious piece of machinery.
Urine is sucked away using a personal nozzle attached to a suction pipe, and most of it is converted back into water for the astronauts to use.
Going number two is a trickier proposition, one that requires special camera-assisted training and occasional hand-packing of feces before they're launched on a course to burn up in Earth's atmosphere.
Everyone poops, including astronauts, and it all has to go somewhere. Early Moon missions used bags, tubes, and diapers to gather and contain human waste, but this was obviously not ideal.
Even today, though, the toilet on the ISS is an expensive and precarious piece of machinery.
Urine is sucked away using a personal nozzle attached to a suction pipe, and most of it is converted back into water for the astronauts to use.
Going number two is a trickier proposition, one that requires special camera-assisted training and occasional hand-packing of feces before they're launched on a course to burn up in Earth's atmosphere.
Photo: NASA / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain
