To mark World Toilet Day, an ISS crewmember has answered one of the most common questions that astronauts get asked: How do you use the bathroom in space?
To mark World Toilet Day on Sunday, current space station inhabitant Andreas Mogensen has answered one of the most common questions that astronauts get asked: “How do you use the bathroom in space?”
The microgravity conditions aboard the International Space Station (ISS) make it impossible to use a conventional toilet on the orbital outpost. You don’t even want to imagine the mess it would create.
So engineers had to come up with something that takes human waste away at speed before it has a chance to float away and contaminate the environment.
“If you have ever wondered how going to the toilet works on the ISS, I have made a little video explaining the procedure that is needed to go number 1 and 2 on the toilet up here,” Mogensen said in a social media post shared on Sunday.
