Space Toilet

[dogluvrgolden]

was the new space toilet for the International Space Station recently launched, to replace the one designed by Howard Wallowitz from "The Big Bang Theory" ?!

 

[Catastrophe]

Who would be interested in this topic? Not I.

 

[SpaceShuttleer]

You are referring to the new one sent aboard the Cygnus NG-14 SS Kalpana Chawla resupply ship earlier today?

 

[Catastrophe]

You are referring to the new one sent aboard the Cygnus NG-14 SS Kalpana Chawla resupply ship earlier today?

No d just in general.

 

[SpaceShuttleer]

Astronauts have to drink their own pee to preserve water... Bear Grylls moment.

 

[serhiy1635]

Astronauts have to drink their own pee to preserve water... Bear Grylls moment.

I hope you are joking. That`s sounds hilarious. I don`t even think it might happened in 1970thw when tech was not so developed.

 

[serhiy1635]

was the new space toilet for the International Space Station recently launched, to replace the one designed by Howard Wallowitz from "The Big Bang Theory" ?!

So you made me interested in that stuff
I surfed in the internet and found a lot of interesting inf.

Space toilet - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[matthewota]

There is nothing more juvenile than bathroom humor. That is all I have to say about it.

 

[WebbHubbleWebble]

If humans are ever to expand their footprints beyond Earth, someone will need to study the science of this

 

[Clovis]

Who would be interested in this topic? Not I.

Not I either, the toilets work by useing a vacuum. So all that "stuff " isn't floating around. Another good use of a rotating centrifuge. Now showers, I don't know how they do that. Maybe my British friend Catastrophe does.

 

[Clovis]

One thing is for sure, you wouldn't want to float into the ISS and it smells like a pig boat. That's what they called a German U Boat.

 

[Clovis]

Resident Alien on the SciFi channel. When those two kids asked the Alien do Aliens poop? He replied with this " Everything Poops".

 

[Catastrophe]

Isn't it time this distasteful subject got closed?

Cat

 

[Clovis]

Isn't it time this distasteful subject got closed?

Cat

Yes it is, it's really not very professional on a Space forum. Neither is the sending poop to Mars thread .

 

[Unclear Engineer]

Well, it is a real issue, both the containment and the recycling. It just doesn't get discussed much in public. But, it is an important issue for astronaut training. And, as we try to put human habitats in more remote places, it will have less ability to deal with unreliable systems and processes, as well as a greater need to not waste the recyclable "resources".

I remember politicians in Congress giving NASA grief about a "million dollar toilet seat". It was used as a joke about NASA for quite a while. But not by those astronauts who used to have to tape plastic bags to their rear ends - and sometimes failed to achieve perfect "containment" in small spaces like Gemini capsuls.

So, while this may not be a good place to discuss it without unnecessarily unprofessional comments getting interjected, it is a subject that serious engineers need to pay attention to for designing space craft and off-Earth habitats.

 

[Plotus]

Curious the comments here. It is an imporant consideration. Otherwise it could be catastrophic.

 

[Questioner]

It's actually a relevant subject.

It also relates to the general topic of matterials handling, processing and containment.

Near perfect containment of atmosphere and recycling of it are related.

Recycling precious organic/volatile matterials in the virtual emptiness of space is a pretty critically important topic.

In space matter is a rarity & organic potentially life sustaining matter is really important.

This is where ecotech chemists & engineers will prove their 'metal'.