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Pooping In Space: Astronaut Tells Horror Story. There Are Accidents Also
Just in case you watched those videos of giant rockets landing in tandem or of Elon Musk's car gliding through orbit and fell under the delusion that modern space flight is glamorous, please listen to NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson's story about how she regularly packed poo with her hand.
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NASA's 'Space Poop Challenge' Is Over And It Went Boldly Beyond The Diaper
During the 60-day challenge, 19,000 thinkers and inventors submitted 5,000 possible solutions. Some pooled their resources, working as teams. Others, like first-place designer Col. Thatcher R. Cardon, a physician and officer in the U.S. Air Force, thought up his design solo. Cardon's design, and the two other winning technologies, were announced We...
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NASA On The Hunt For Space Poop Geniuses
When you've got to go, but you're out there in space, zipped up in a spacesuit, with no toilet in sight and a crew of other astronauts around, what do you do?
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NASA Set to Burn Astronauts' Poop in Space
The US space agency NASA has released some interesting data about several of its year-long "human research" programmes on the ISS - and its astronaut Scott Kelly's poop and the effect of space on the waste is one of them.
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NASA Wants To Turn Astronauts' Poop Into Food
The US space agency NASA has funded researchers to find out how to recycle human excreta into food that can help astronauts sustain on deeper space missions, including Mars.
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Pooping In Space: Astronaut Tells Horror Story. There Are Accidents Also
Just in case you watched those videos of giant rockets landing in tandem or of Elon Musk's car gliding through orbit and fell under the delusion that modern space flight is glamorous, please listen to NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson's story about how she regularly packed poo with her hand.
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NASA's 'Space Poop Challenge' Is Over And It Went Boldly Beyond The Diaper
During the 60-day challenge, 19,000 thinkers and inventors submitted 5,000 possible solutions. Some pooled their resources, working as teams. Others, like first-place designer Col. Thatcher R. Cardon, a physician and officer in the U.S. Air Force, thought up his design solo. Cardon's design, and the two other winning technologies, were announced We...
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NASA On The Hunt For Space Poop Geniuses
When you've got to go, but you're out there in space, zipped up in a spacesuit, with no toilet in sight and a crew of other astronauts around, what do you do?
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NASA Set to Burn Astronauts' Poop in Space
The US space agency NASA has released some interesting data about several of its year-long "human research" programmes on the ISS - and its astronaut Scott Kelly's poop and the effect of space on the waste is one of them.
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NASA Wants To Turn Astronauts' Poop Into Food
The US space agency NASA has funded researchers to find out how to recycle human excreta into food that can help astronauts sustain on deeper space missions, including Mars.
