We don't know how good we have it here on Earth.
for the forthcoming Artemis moon missions due to the unique challenges of hitting the porcelain throne off-world.admitted in September 2021
that a previous crop of space tourists had struggled with waste management during a crewed mission. A month after that, we got more information when SpaceX revealed that it had fixed a problem on one of its Crew Dragon capsules in which its space toilet, which relies on two separate vacuum tubes for numbers one and two, was leaking and spraying urine onto the floor of the craft.
"We didn’t really even notice it, the crew didn’t even notice it, until we got back," SpaceX's Bill Gerstenmaierat the time. "When we got the vehicle back, we looked under the floor and saw the fact that there was contamination underneath the floor of Inspiration4." Less than a year after that, toilet shenanigans continued to ensue when it was reported that during Axiom's first mission to the ISS, the toilets on the American side weren't working for some hours, which required those on that side of the international divide to ask the Russians if they could use their facilities.of the debacle. "We operate as one team up there and they said, 'Hey, come on over and use ours.
In other words, space remains a hostile environment in ways both large and small — and no amount of training on the ground will fully prepare space travelers, no matter how wealthy, for the reality of life in orbit.
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