AI6YR Ben"...put the frozen urine into the sun...." 🤔
CNN: More than half way to the moon, the Artemis II astronauts are grappling with a toilet problem
https://lite.cnn.com/2026/04/04/science/artemis-2-toilet-malfunction
Here we are floating in outer space
Only problem with this place
Is the toilet's stuck and it won't flush
I think the pee has turned to slush
Ah crap, what do you do
When you cannot take a number two
#spaceship #poem (human)
Jer 🚲@ai6yr do you think part of the qualifying to be an astronaut is ability to go to bathroom around others?
“Welcome to the selection interview! Myself and these esteemed scientists will be conducting the interview. Have a seat please.”
“Uhm, there’s only a toilet?”
“Ah, yes, which brings us to our first question …”
“Welcome to the selection interview! Myself and these esteemed scientists will be conducting the interview. Have a seat please.”
“Uhm, there’s only a toilet?”
“Ah, yes, which brings us to our first question …”
vxo@ai6yr
This all just irrationally amused me because of this thing
https://www.kg4cyx.net/fixing-the-space-station-toilet-harris-powercd/
This all just irrationally amused me because of this thing
https://www.kg4cyx.net/fixing-the-space-station-toilet-harris-powercd/
@vxo LOL
This reminds me, I was listening in on an astronaut talking to some kids at a school (direct, VHF)... at 1:36
Astronaut Luca Parmitano KF5KDP
"I personally think the most important job (on the ISS) is fixing the toilet..."
International Space Station / ARISS downlink from astronaut Luca Parmitano KF5KDP
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FreddyB Aviation Photography@ai6yr well we know they have space diapers. Who will never forget the crazy astronaut lady that strapped on a bunch of NASA diapers to drive 900 miles to kill the other woman. When the great Tom Wolf was writing about “the right stuff” I’m thinking this is not what he had in mind
Roy -- the dull oneDreaming of the wealth and fame,
the everlasting glow of my name
if perchance it might be me
to receive that jettisoned bag of pee.
Ah, well, I never claimed to be as fine a poet as you are, Ben!
@oldclumsy_nowmad LOL I like it!
You're kind!
Artemis
GLC
me_valentijn@ai6yr
The things they never taught us in school about the 1969 space flights 😔
'“Give me a napkin, quick,” Stafford was recorded saying a few minutes before Cernan spots more: “Here’s another goddamn turd.” '
Steve's Place@ai6yr @me_valentijn Our flight had rats and monkeys in cages built by Lockheed, where gross assumptions were made without evidence in reality.
Because of the risk of herpes, present in every set of lab monkeys they had wanted to use, the crew was naturally upset. The air and water is recirculated in space.
Come flight, and the crew had skipped our flight training for how to handle the food dispensers and waste trays. Theory was, you had an extra plastic bag to hold the old stuff. You put the extra bag up to the slot where the food/waste was, and pushed a button (which was essentially a shotgun firing mechanism). Out would come the bad old stuff into the bag, which you'd close with a wire tie.
I was watching. The extra bag confused them. They took the new thing and pulled it from its bag, then floating. Pow! They pushed the first button. Zip! Out came bits of food, the dehydrated food bar that was never replaced after NASA delayed our flight so the Pentagon could launch a toy.
From the cockpit: "We can smell it up here."
Then came the first waste tray.
Now, Lockheed assumed 2 things. 1) than animals will never pee into the wind, and 2) that the wind from the fan in the cage was swift enough to cause even waste distribution across the waste tray.
The rats, not tethered, spun in circles in weightlessness as their legs kept trying to run. The window into that cage was covered in rat pee. They peed in all directions, wind be damned.
So, the first assumption was bogus. What about the second?
The astronauts pushed that fateful button to release the first waste tray. Bits of poop began floating. Now wiser, but still not following printed instructions, they had a vacuum cleaner to grab what turned out to be a lot of poop.
From the cockpit: "WE CAN SMELLLL IT UP HERE!"
Yeah. Poop in space. Good times.
@steter @me_valentijn uhhhhhhhh
Solo la 🌍 salva a la 🌎OMG.
"The main problem that arose during flight was the release of particulates from the animal enclosures into the Spacelab ... Malfunctions in the leak alarms for the water systems in the primate cages and in three of the rodent cages were also noted ... Fouling of activity sensors, viewing windows, and temporary restraint systems occurred because of the way in which the animals oriented themselves during waste elimination." 🐒 🐀 🟡 💩
@jakebrake @ai6yr @me_valentijn Yep. We had a legacy, but it was a team effort. [side-eye glance at Lockheed]
crappy hole!
Sounds like the Shuttle mission could have used a few more Collapsible Contingency Urinals!
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oldguycrusty@oldguycrusty @ai6yr Indeed.
Ryan M@ai6yr is this Howard Wollowitz’s fault??
(character in The Big Bang Theory television show where a subplot had him building a space toilet)
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@[email protected] my SM circle is small these days, but I was surprised I didn’t see more references to that. Guess Howard’s space toilet didn’t make it into pop culture
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