On Apollo, using the bathroom was ‘messy.’ America’s next moonshot will be radically different in ma

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On Apollo, using the bathroom was ‘messy.’ America’s next moonshot will be radically different in many ways

Chabeli Herrera
 
4 hrs ago
 

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The three Apollo 10 astronauts are zipping through the desolate expanse of space, the Earth a small blue marble behind them, on a mission poised to set the stage for one of humanity’s seminal achievements, when, suddenly, astronaut Tom Stafford called out from inside the cramped spacecraft: “Oh — who did it?”
 
After some confusion, he repeated himself: “Who did it?”

He was laughing.

Then astronaut Gene Cernan spotted the source of the commotion: “Where did that come from?”

“Give me a napkin quick,” Stafford said, horrified. “There’s a turd floating through the air.”

Ah, the glamour of space travel.

In the 1960s, an entire nation set out to complete a presidential mandate to get men on the moon by the end of the decade. They did it with Apollo, a craft that at the time was built to perform that exact purpose — a mission to the moon and back — with the bare bones required to make it happen.

That meant no toilets.

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Houston, we have a problem

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In space, no one can hear you flush