Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Astronauts cross their legs waiting for toilet fix

Pooping is actually quite a complex process. On Earth, gravity is what makes it all possible. But in space, you really don’t have that luxury.
On early spaceflights, astronauts would use, according to MSNBC, “bags with sticky openings” that would catch an astronaut’s floating fecal matter. Today, astronauts use a complex contraption that uses a series [...]