To boldly go where no man has gone before

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[–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Hopefully named the *rump toilet!

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    [–] 31 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Spend tens of billions.

    Poop in a bag.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    And that bag cost tens of thousands of dollars to design!

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    When you add up people's time to design and test, absolutely. Could have crossed $100,000 and it would be a teaspnable cost. Wouldn't want to half ass a space poop bag.

    This how it works in any business, R&D is high but businesses tend to spead that cost out per item when massproducted. One off or limited uses are always far more than mass production.

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  • [–] 27 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Fun fact!

    One of those "fecal specimens" escaped containment during the Apollo 10 lunar flyby and floated around the crew module. The event would forever be immortalized in the mission's radio transcripts:

    Cernan: "Where did that come from?"

    Stafford: "Get me a napkin quick. There's a turd floating through the air."

    Young: "I didn't do it. It ain't one of mine."

    Cernan: "I don't think it's one of mine."

    Stafford: "Mine was a little more sticky than that. Throw that away."

    Young: "God Almighty"

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  • [–] 25 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Did the video tell you about the diet the Astronauts had to eat prior to and while on the mission?

    The engineering that NASA did and still does really is amazing.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I'd never considered this, growing up I was always taught 'squeeze pouch' or toothpaste tube-food type stuff.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    It was that, it was just a very low fiber diet so they pooped a lot less.

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    Frank Sinatra never said anything about pooping in a bag! This is outrageous!

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Some of those bags are still on the moon today, in the lockers on the descent stages where they were left.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    For anyone interested in more astronaut poop stories she other similar weird stuff I can highly recommend "packing for Mars" by Mary Roach.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Is this the design from the guy in The Big Bang Theory show?

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Some of us still use them. WAG bag. Plz don't leave poop in my wilderness.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Plz don't leave poop in my wilderness

    I have some bad news for you...

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    You left human feces in the woods?

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