Comment on adhesive tape to the buttocks
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 week agoApollo 11 was the first moon landing, so if this transcript is really from Apollo 10 the bags of shit are still in the lunar module, which was jettisoned on the way back to Earth. According to Google it’s in a heliocentric orbit, “drifting aimlessly around the solar system.”
Even more details: the abbreviations CMP, LMP and CDR in the transcript mean Command Module Pilot (John Young), Lunar Module Pilot (Gene Cernan), and Commander (Tom Stafford), all now deceased. Young and Cernan each returned to walk on the moon in Apollo 16 and 17.
mkwt@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I am well aware that Apollo 10 did not deliver shitbags to the moon.
But 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17 did, if they defecated at all on the moon, leave it behind per checklist. There are 96 inventoried bags on the moon, but it is not recorded which, if any, are filled with what. It would have been easier to avoid on the earlier missions, which spent less time on the surface.
At least one astronaut claims he avoided a bowel movement for the entire mission duration.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Slashdown must have been rough with a big one in the chamber.