Comment on did the Artemis crew really spend 10 days pooping in their diapers?

• dhork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The toilet handled solid and liquid waste differently. Solid waste was stored for disposal on earth, liquid waste was stored in a smaller container and intended to be periodically vented out into the void. But the mechanism for that froze, and the container they had to store it in was too small for the whole trip, so they had to use a backup supply of pee bags for pee instead of the toilet.

  I wonder if we were saved from an even worse fate, and if the toilet had worked as planned we would be destroyed at some point in the future by a race of aliens who we accidentally peed on

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• HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  didn’t they have a whole press conference about the woman who fixed it?

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  • mech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, but it broke again.

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