On Apollo, using the bathroom was ‘messy.’ America’s next moonshot will be radically different in many ways
Chabeli Herrera
4 hrs ago © MIKE BROWN / Reuters PhotoThe 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?â€
After some confusion, he repeated himself: “Who did it?â€
He was laughing.
Then astronaut Gene Cernan spotted the source of the commotion: “Where did that come from?â€
“Give me a napkin quick,†Stafford said, horrified. “There’s a turd floating through the air.â€
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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