How Do You Go To the Bathroom in Space? Carefully

March 18, 2009

Leave it to a teacher to tell you the straight poop. 

Here's what rookie astronaut Joe Acaba, a former teacher,  had to say about toileting it in orbit.

"In the space shuttle we have a small room where we have our toilet and there’s a device to collect the urine and then you have another one to dispose of the larger matter. Basically a lot of it works on a vacuum, so we have a hose but it’s a very light vacuum and each person has their own funnel (for) when you have to go ahead and urinate.

When you go ahead to do No. 2, just like you do at home, you sit down, you make sure you have a good seal and that’s important. The last thing we want to have is our commander seeing something floating around the cabin.”

Thanks Joe. Quite a visual ....

 

 

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[Plumbing Supplies]

This sounds like a little dignity may be out the window, I cant imagine what a little rumbling in the tummy must be like, and the consequences!

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