For the spacewalks, the Apollo astronauts were back to condoms that collected the pee in a bag in the suit. Buzz Aldrin was the second man on the moon, but the first to pee there.
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What about periods in space? - According to women who have been there, "It's just like a period on Earth." It turns out menstrual blood moves via a wicking action. Gravity can speed that up, but is unnecessary. Also, tampons exist.
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Fun fact: When Sally Ride was preparing to go into space, NASA engineers asked her if 100 tampons would be the right number for a week. She said, "No. That would not be the right number." They cut it back to 50...
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Fun fact: Gravity creates most of the sense of urgency for peeing, so in microgravity, astronauts can't always tell when they need to go. It's such a complicated process that they pee on a schedule.
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Fun fact: When Yuri Gargarin was on his way to the launch pad, he realized the suit-up had taken so long that he needed to pee. He got out of the truck and peed on the tire. Every astronaut to launch from Baikonur since has done the same. Women squat or carry a vial of pee.
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#TheFatedSky, I have an ENTIRE CHAPTER about a zero-g toilet repair complete with spinning globe of urine. Alas, I had not yet learned that it should be bright purple so it is merely amber.https://books2read.com/b/boYxkA?edit=maybe-later&store=null …Show this thread -
FAQ: Erections in space? Officially, it's never happened. However, according to Mike Mullane in his book, Riding Rockets, he woke most mornings on the shuttle with his "wooden puppet friend" "I had an erection so intense it was painful. I could have drilled through kryptonite."
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Scientists have studied farting in sterile labs and found that the various particles that might contaminate the environment are trapped by the pants, so clearly there's a lot of reaction mass getting trapped there. Has anybody tried fart propulsion while fully commando?
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Yes. It does not work.
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“Astronauts have tried” is the single greatest sentence in this magnificent thread.
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So question about this. Does the stink of a fart just linger in the cabin forever. I assume it takes a while to go away as its vacuum sealed.
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