The Space Poop Challenge was led by crowdfunding platform HeroX with support of NASA. And on the sixth day of the Apollo 10 mission, the identifiable floating object struck. It was May 1969. As the ...

When British astronaut Tim Peake was on board the International Space Station (ISS) recently, he admitted that the question he gets asked most by the public is how astronauts poop in microgravity ...

Pooping in space "isn't glamorous, but it is necessary for survival," an astronaut explains—yet it's presenting quite a challenge for NASA. See, while the International Space Station has a pretty ...

For all the rockets that have been launched, you'd think that coming up with a solution to keep our literal crap together in space would be easy. It might not be rocket science, but it has apparently ...

When hurtling through the cosmos, the last thing an astronaut wants to worry about is what to do when nature calls. If they're in a regularly pressured spacecraft, the answer is easy -- just go to the ...

Ground control to Major Tom: What happens when an astronaut needs to use the bathroom? Out of all the innovations developed in mankind’s quest to go forth and explore the universe, NASA has still not ...

NASA wants to phase out space diapers. — -- Astronauts have survived trips to the moon and spacewalks in Earth orbit, but there remains one stubborn problem NASA has not been able to solve: how ...

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