credit: NASA
Posted on 11/18/2016 9:31:15 AM PST by BenLurkin
The agency is asking innovators to create fecal, urine and menstrual management systems for spacesuits, that would work for up to six days.
NASA astronauts wear diapers to take care of their bodily needs while they're launching, landing or spacewalking. However, these diapers are only good for a few hours; sitting in poop, urine or menstrual fluid for more than that is bad for your health, and your backside, besides.
"Future missions may require long-duration waste management for use by a pressurized suited crew member," NASA wrote in a statement on HeroX, a website where people or organizations can host incentive-based competitions.
Further complicating the challenge is the requirement that the system work in microgravity, in a pressurized spacesuit. This means would-be designers need to contend with floating water and debris that everybody really, really wants to keep far away from human orifices or vital spacesuit systems.
The new system will be designed for NASA's Modified Advanced Crew Escape Suit, an improvement on the orange spacesuit used for shuttle launches and landings. That suit is expected to be used by astronauts on the Orion spacecraft.
The submission deadline for the Space Poop Challenge is Dec. 20, and winners will be announced Jan. 31, 2017. You can see all the guidelines and rules on this website. https://herox.com/SpacePoop/
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What a sh**** thread, Ben.
I invented a BUSS system years ago.
NASA has yet to contact me.
Do they have transgender bathrooms in outer space?
I’ve read about toilets which vaporize the waste with high voltage. Maybe install electrodes in their suits near the orifice?
Wrong question. It is, SHOULD they have transgender bathrooms in outer space?
It hurt just reading that.
Glad I am not an astronaut. I feel like Larry David but the whole elimination thing kills it for me.
Paging Howard Wolowitz....Please pick up line 1.
Freeze dry the poop and ship it to cable news channels as food for their political correspondents.
Judging from the looks on their faces these days, they definitely eat the stuff.
HAHAHA!
So. . .they want to boldly go, where no man has gone before ???
Solution is not required to handle uncontrollable, ongoing diarrhea
That's when the cyanide capsule activates.
Bovines in space. Save the planet
Introducing the all new, patented “DebateMaster (tm)” diaper system, for when you absolutely can’t make it to a toilet every 30 minutes.
I don’t want to get banned. But, speaking of those body parts, I’ve heard NASA has quietly studied the issue of long space flights, relating to peoples physical desires. And the implications of men and women together in space for long periods, such as a mission to Mars.
Obviously some people don’t give a s***t about the crap astronauts have to put up with.
I told you to poop before we left, now you’re just going to have to hold it in!
Yeah, and?
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