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Space Station Toilets Poop Out
otter42 writes "The International Space Station's toilet has gone kaput. It seems that the system for separating solid and liquid waste has developed a fault. 'Solids' go where they're supposed to, but 'liquids' don't. The astronauts have bypassed the '"the troublesome hardware" for urine collection with a "special receptacle."' Something tells me they're glad the failure wasn't the other way around." Update: 05/28 21:54 GMT by T : According to a post on Engadget, the toilet's now been repaired.
It appears that there is some kind of toilet on the Soyuz module, though I would guess that it probably doesn't have as much capacity or functionality.
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Unfortunately this Shuttle mission is probably the most weight limited mission of the entire program. They are putting up the big part of the Japanese lab, and it is huge! I'd have to check, but I think this is the most massive object a Space Shuttle will ever put up. Unless the toilet weighs less than 100 kg, there probably isn't room for it. They've already cut one member of the crew to save weight.
. . . SpellCzech says it is spelled Russua!
Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?
. . . SpellCzech says it is spelled Russua!
Real Czechs spell it Rusko.
There you are, staring at me again.
The smart money says the early Soviet space program involved sending large numbers of cosmonauts to near-certain death, then only reporting the successes. You really think a totalitarian regime doesn't sweep its failures under the rug?
Cantankerous old coot since 1957.
Actually, in a small airtight container where the air cannot be exchanged easily (if at all), waste management is Criticality One, especially since there's no gravity and the waste is gas forming and full of micro-organisms.
Breathing powdered shit is dangerous.
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
There you have it, you don't explode in space. Your skin is actually very air tight. I think the worst thing that could happen is your bladder would become inverted. Think about it. Ouch!
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
Actually, Russians DO write similar articles. This article is on spacedaily and several mainstream russian papers. In addition, they DO point out our failures. It is obvious that you do not read russian papers.
Challenger and Columbia. I think that counts as two LOV accidents. Challenger was also a LOM, and Columbia was a partial LOM.