Thursday, 16 February 2017

NASA Space Poop Challenge winners rethink the adult diaper

NASA's Space Poop Challenge looked to crowdsources a design for a hands-free, gender-neutral waste management system ...

For all the rockets that have been launched, you'd think that coming up with a solution to keep our literal crap together in space would be easy. It might not be rocket science, but it has apparently proven more difficult. Despite the technology at our disposal, astronauts have gone from doing their number twos in plastic bags (a practice that resulted in the now legendary floating turd incident of the Apollo 10 mission), to wearing adult diapers … and that's it. NASA has decided this will not do, not if we are serious about going to Mars.

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