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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 ...

This is one crappy challenge. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's no secret that humans poop — even in space. But the actual, ...

NASA has partnered with the crowdsourcing platform HeroX in its search for the next lunar toilet. Do your, uh, duty and design the next toilet that astronauts will use on the moon. The prize for ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Pooping in space “isn’t glamorous, but it is ...