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Astronauts are Getting a New Toilet Next Week - Universe Today:
When astronauts have to go, NASA wants them to boldly go.
A new space toilet is heading to the International Space Station, with official name "Universal Waste Management System" (UWMS). (If it's NASA, there has to be an acronym). The new toilet is smaller than the current toilets aboard the station, is more user-friendly, and includes 3-D printed titanium parts.
NASA says these are just some of the upgrades that make it better suited for use in future deep space exploration missions. While the new toilet is being installed on the ISS to make life a little better for the space station astronauts, the system will also be tested for use on the new Orion spacecraft, part of the Artemis missions to the Moon.
[...] Other items on board the ship are a new plant research experiment and a special virtual reality camera designed to immerse you in a spacewalk.
If you want more info about the space toilet, check out the Reddit AMA that was held on Friday, September 25 at 12 pm EDT, at reddit.com/r/space, with Melissa McKinley who leads the NASA team working on the UWMS, and Jim Fuller of Collins Aerospace, and program manager for UWMS.
[I wonder how many Soylentils immediately thought of this episode of "The Big Bang Theory"? --martyb]
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday September 27 2020, @01:22PM (2 children)
I thought: "When astronauts have to go, NASA wants them to boldly go. ---Shouldn't that be 'go boldly'?"
Awaiting the Grammar Nazi: Major Das Boot
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Sunday September 27 2020, @05:40PM
IIRC, Fowler's dictionary of English Usage approves splitting an infinitive with an adverb that modifies it -- it's often the clearest, last ambiguous way to say something.
-- hendrik
(Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Sunday September 27 2020, @08:02PM
but of course - martyb watches the big bang theory. i don't know what else i was expecting. the show for dumb people about what they think smart people are.
(Score: 2, Informative) by fustakrakich on Sunday September 27 2020, @02:24PM (2 children)
18.1 million
I am surprised that wasn't in the summary, but like they said in the tweets, nobody wants to discuss it.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday September 27 2020, @06:48PM (1 child)
If we had a space station toilet assembly line, I bet we could get the cost per unit down. But as it turns out, not many of them are needed.
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(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Sunday September 27 2020, @09:39PM
:-) I suspect the NASA contract had a bigger effect on the price than a volume discount would. I hope this is not the only product this company sells.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Sunday September 27 2020, @02:59PM (1 child)
Did someone throw a cherry bomb into the old one?
I came. I saw. I forgot why I came.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 27 2020, @05:21PM
Because probably it will need proper testing before you send people to the Moon with one. It's in TFS
(Score: 1) by MIRV888 on Sunday September 27 2020, @03:54PM (1 child)
If they don't figure out the air leak, it's kind of moot.
I hope it flushes into space.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 27 2020, @11:37PM
Really? Imagine colliding with a 250 gram frozen turd orbiting at 5 km/s.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 27 2020, @04:08PM
So Howard Wolowitz is in space at the ISS? ;)
(Score: 2) by Opportunist on Sunday September 27 2020, @04:59PM (2 children)
So they will finally be able to go where no man has gone before.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 27 2020, @06:26PM
Make it so, no. 1.
(Score: 1) by MIRV888 on Sunday September 27 2020, @07:17PM
Good one. I just want to see floating frozen turds in low earth orbit.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 27 2020, @09:35PM
No will longer be a problem on the ISS
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 27 2020, @11:34PM
NASA's toilet will get new astronauts.
Hail to the Nibbler in Chief.