What Happens When You Go Number 2 in Space?

Chris Hadfield, astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency answers one of the age-old questions every kid has: What happens when you go to the bathroom in outer space? A little insight into zero-gravity toilet design.


Source: Canadian Space Agency

 

 

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for the next person who crosses and have too slow of internet or anything. ill just summarize. basically theres a space toilet, and a seatbelt to hold you down. and a funnel(for the guys) and a cup(for the girls) for urine and a little windy pull thing that sucks down your feces. it all goes into a storage>then freezes and send out to burn in space. and a funny thing at the end. "when you see a shooting star, thats what it might be"
07.24.2008
Adam
Bummer, no sound here and I sure would like to know....
07.04.2008
Chester Payne
After ten minutes of waiting, I finally get the messaage that the video I want to watch is currently unavailable. How much of that is due to dial[up speeds and how much is due to other people trying to wath it, I don't know. I do know it is frustrating to be told that your equipment wonnt do what it was designed to do because of a problem you have no control ove. In my case, high-speed is unavaliable at any affordable price, and that creates all sorts of problems withstreaming audio as well as any video.
I agree with Cristy 13, not only because of the high-speed internet issue, but also because I could read the story in a lot less time than watching the video.
07.01.2008
Cristy 13
Why can't you just write it? Not all of us can afford high-speed internet service, and with a dial-up connection video won't play.
It feels good to write.

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