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Crisis in space as Artemis II toilet breaks leaving astronauts with no other options
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Posted on 04/06/2026 9:55:57 PM PDT by algore

The toilet on board the Artemis II spacecraft has reportedly broken down again, leaving the four astronauts on board with no working bathroom on their return to Earth.

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen will reportedly now have to switch to a diaper-like alternative for the remainder of the trip back to Earth.

The space agency later confirmed that the toilet was not working as the Artemis flight reached day six in their ten-day mission.

NASA has previously said that in the event the space capsule's toilet stopped working, the astronauts would need to switch to a device called the Collapsible Contingency Urinal (CCU).

The CCU is a backup system for urine collection developed specifically for the Artemis moon missions.

Simply put, it is a plastic bag with special inner surfaces called hydrophilic vanes that act like tiny channels. These channels use capillary action, the same natural force that makes a paper towel soak up a spill, which pulls the urine away from the astronaut and down to the bottom of the bag.

At the bottom of the bag is a small drain port. The crew can connect it to the spacecraft's systems and safely release the urine into space.

In both cases, NASA confirmed that the astronauts were still able to use the malfunctioning toilet for bowel movements.

If the Artemis toilet has completely broken down and can no longer handle solid waste collection, the four astronauts would have to fall back to older-style fecal collection bags.

These are basically sealed plastic bags with adhesives and wipes. These were used on the Apollo moon missions.

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KEYWORDS: artemis; artemis2; artemisii; haveotheroptions; orion; piddlepaks
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To: When do we get liberated?

21 posted on 04/06/2026 10:46:37 PM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: All

It is working again. It appears they have to put some sunshine in that side of the spacecraft to thaw it out..


22 posted on 04/06/2026 10:56:52 PM PDT by EVO X ( )
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To: algore

When you are flying around the moon, some Gia green nutcase wants CO2 free toilets.... I hope that is just a jest but I think many possible reasons....


23 posted on 04/06/2026 11:01:17 PM PDT by medical conservative
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To: DouglasKC

Don’t forget asking for directions


24 posted on 04/06/2026 11:08:57 PM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: yesthatjallen

My parents always made us go before we left on long trips.


25 posted on 04/06/2026 11:12:05 PM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: When do we get liberated?

Or he could send the Roto rooter guys in a shuttle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9avf_U8h3_M

“You should have gone before you left home on the trip.”


26 posted on 04/06/2026 11:25:40 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: algore

Sounds like a bad float valve to me.

Pick up a new one at planet Earth for $10.


27 posted on 04/06/2026 11:25:54 PM PDT by Barnacle
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To: algore

Oh, just pull over.

Nobody’s watching.


28 posted on 04/06/2026 11:32:02 PM PDT by Barnacle
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To: llevrok

Photo....Randy Quaid.

Does anyone else remember Randy Quaid was also in the science fiction movie Independence Day?

I thought the screenplay was illogical to have him belittled and laughed at when he was actually an example of space aliens doing medical experiments on humans as in the abduction narratives of alleged victims. He was right in what he said, not a goofball to be ignored.

Linda Moulton Howe the researcher sometimes interviewed on Ancient Aliens was told the mutilated cattle were probably part of the ongoing assembly of a dna library by aliens-—including specimens from humans.


29 posted on 04/06/2026 11:34:03 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: All

30 posted on 04/06/2026 11:39:36 PM PDT by FLNittany
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To: algore

Is there a patent on the Zero-G Pooper Scooper?


31 posted on 04/06/2026 11:40:59 PM PDT by Barnacle
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To: enumerated

RE: asking for directions....

In The Main Event with Ryan O’Neill, Barbra Streisand is at the rustic prize fighter training center out in the woods and quietly asks trainer Whitman Mayo (Grady on Sanford & Son) where the ladies’ room is. He says “Outside.”
“Where outside?”
“Allllll over.”
“Oh.”


32 posted on 04/06/2026 11:41:01 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Nervous Tick

The DM is becoming more and more of a farce.

Brit idiots, who are overun with Muslims , are practically shrieking at DJT for the crime of breathing.

And at the stupid Americans who voted for him. But of course, it was voter fraud. No one would vote for him. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. etcetcetcetcet


33 posted on 04/06/2026 11:47:00 PM PDT by Veto! ((Trump is Superman))
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To: algore

So, did they install the Wolowitz Zero-Gravity Waste Disposal System (of ISS fame) in the Orion?


34 posted on 04/07/2026 12:34:26 AM PDT by Raven6 (Psalm 144:1 and Proverbs 22:3)
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To: frank ballenger
... “Ryan O'Neill, Barbra Streisan”...

For me, either of them in a movie is nauseating.
The combined effect would probably end in a 911 call

35 posted on 04/07/2026 12:38:59 AM PDT by Barnacle
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To: Veto!

Well put! I read the UK Daily Mail everyday and they print more hysterical anti-Trump articles each day; its as though they need to cover up the growing disaster in the UK by diverting attention through crazed “insider” articles.


36 posted on 04/07/2026 1:24:11 AM PDT by laconic
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To: yesthatjallen
I thought the chick fixed it.

Reading all the way through the article (did ANYONE else here do so?):

A) She didn't - the toilet just needed time to warm up. She may have figured that out, however.

B) Then the urine vent froze up again anyway - which was cured by positioning the spacecraft so sunlight would warm the area the vent line is in.

C) Now the vent line is frozen up yet again. I wonder if the spacecraft had to be specifically positioned elsewise as it looped around the moon, OR, was it in the Moon's shadow for long enough for a re-freeze? Crazy things happen when you are on the "dark side" of the Moon, you know. (Pink Floyd reference.)

I'm also surprised no one caught this:

Compared to the toilet on the ISS, Orion's lavatory was modified to be more practical for female astronauts.

...although I don't know if that changed the location of the vent line in any way that matters.

37 posted on 04/07/2026 2:19:36 AM PDT by Paul R. (Old Viking saying: "Never be more than 3 steps away from your weapon ... or a Uriah Heep song!" ;-))
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To: algore

“Chemtrailing”? How so?


38 posted on 04/07/2026 2:24:25 AM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: Drago

Not easy to convince a chemtrailer that it is simply water vapor. Been trying that with my wife for years. Finally gave up.


39 posted on 04/07/2026 2:29:10 AM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: Paul R.

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40 posted on 04/07/2026 2:29:46 AM PDT by desertsolitaire
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