Posted on 04/04/2026 12:45:13 PM PDT by V_TWIN
Astronauts on board Artemis II reported a mysterious burning smell coming from the $23 million advanced toilet system which previously malfunctioned after takeoff.
“Regarding the smell, I just wanted to make sure you all were tracking the EGS notes of the kind of burning heater smell that was coming from toilet several times,” astronaut Chrisna Koch, who fixed the toilet on Thursday, radioed to mission control on Saturday, Space.com reported.
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“All tools are hammers except for screwdrivers and they’re chisels”
~ Homer Simpson
That’s not a seat, it’s a vacuum fitting.
Leave it to a woman, fix the crapper then it catches on fire. Shhhesh.
Damn! I thought I was the only one that had that happened. ROFLMAO!
LOL!
It was Al Bundy.
Just air biscuits
Jalapenos and space travel don’t mix.
I remember when UA got A320’s and it had a lav computer.
So there’s one woman on the flight? And she’s fixing the toilet in addition to cleaning the space craft and taking care of the laundry?
Why are the walls of the crapper covered with plastic wrap??
Take it easy on the hot sauce.
Our new aircraft carrier that had a fire in the laundry room (sabotage) ..... It toilet flushing action was awful with many complaints. Lo-flush toilets at sea? When there is unlimited water all around you.
As you consume the food, it will free up storage space. Sort of like if someone dies on a submarine - eat all the ice cream, and stuff the body in the freezer.
I view all tools as yours.
Now get busy.
$23 Million! ... They could have just welded a traffic cone to the floor and been much better off.
Because they had to “Go where no man has gone before”
Alan Shepard pee-ed in his space suit waiting, on the launchpad, in his capsule, before his historic flight of being the first American in space. Described in the book, THE RIGHT STUFF.
really piss poor engineering.
Supposedly the toilet suctions both the urine and feces and separates them into separate areas. Wonder how it handles loose poop. From what I read, the back up plan is that the poop goes into bags with disinfectant. Why didn’t they use ths same toilet design that the Apollo astronauts used?
10 days worth of poop x 4 people....gonna’ be a stink zone. Locked in a 330 cu. Ft room. About 7’x7 ‘x 7 ‘. Think of it, riding to the moon and back in the pit of an outhouse. Talk about a sh**ty job by the poopgineers. Poopgineers should be sh*tcanned for sure.
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