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'Mary Robinette' like 'Mary Anne.' Nebula & Hugo-awarded author, puppeteer, & narrator (she/her) http://patreon.com/maryrobinette 

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    1. Mary Robinette Kowal@ 🏡‏Verified account @MaryRobinette 19 Jul 2019

      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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    2. Mary Robinette Kowal@ 🏡‏Verified account @MaryRobinette 19 Jul 2019

      During Apollo13, everyone who has seen the movie knows that Fred Haise got sick. Do you know why, though? After the accident, they couldn't use the regular vent, because it needed to be heated to keep the pee from freezing.

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    3. Mary Robinette Kowal@ 🏡‏Verified account @MaryRobinette 19 Jul 2019

      The alternate system caused droplets to float around the ship. Mission Control told them to stop dumping pee. It wasn't meant to be a permanent ban, but the crew didn't understand that. So they were stashing pee in every bag or container possible.

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    4. Mary Robinette Kowal@ 🏡‏Verified account @MaryRobinette 19 Jul 2019

      The fastest option was to store it in the collection bags they wore in their suits. Haise kept his on for hours and hours, basically bathing in pee. He got a UTI and then a kidney infection.

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    5. Mary Robinette Kowal@ 🏡‏Verified account @MaryRobinette 19 Jul 2019

      Finally, a decade later, NASA decides to send women into space. NOW they have a reason to come up with how to handle peeing in space if you don't have a penis. To launch and for a spacewalk, they developed the MAG Maximum Absorbency Garment. It's a diaper.

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    6. Mary Robinette Kowal@ 🏡‏Verified account @MaryRobinette 19 Jul 2019

      The men switched over to using those because it was more comfortable and less prone to leave pee floating around the cabin than the condom sheath. They also developed a zero-G toilet so that astronauts no longer had to tape a bag to their ass.

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    7. Mary Robinette Kowal@ 🏡‏Verified account @MaryRobinette 19 Jul 2019

      Peeing or pooping in space is now a lengthy process, involving a fan, a targeting system, and a fair amount of prayer. Fun pooping in space fact: Without gravity, the poop doesn't break off as it exits your body. You have to reach back and help with special gloves.

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    8. Mary Robinette Kowal@ 🏡‏Verified account @MaryRobinette 19 Jul 2019

      Peeing is a little more straightforward. It's basically a funnel, a tube, a bag, and a fan for suction. Sometimes though, the toilet breaks down. At that point, they return to using "relief bags" taped to their ass and "manual urine containment."

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    9. Mary Robinette Kowal@ 🏡‏Verified account @MaryRobinette 19 Jul 2019

      During a malfunction, it is also possible for a giant floating globe of pee to exit the toilet. Fun fact: Due to chemicals, it is bright purple and acidic. Fun fact: Poop regularly escapes, which is why you never eat a milk dud found floating in the ISS.

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    10. Mary Robinette Kowal@ 🏡‏Verified account @MaryRobinette 19 Jul 2019

      All of which is to say that the reason women didn't go into space had nothing to do with lacking the technology to pee. We didn't have the technology for men to pee in space when they started either. And some days, the best solution is still a diaper or a bag taped to the ass

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      Mary Robinette Kowal@ 🏡‏Verified account @MaryRobinette 19 Jul 2019

      Addendum with some FAQs: What about Farting in space? - It does not propel you. Astronauts have tried. What about belching? - Gravity keeps food at the bottom of the stomach. Burps in space tend to be accompanied by solid matter

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        2. Mary Robinette Kowal@ 🏡‏Verified account @MaryRobinette 19 Jul 2019

          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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        3. Mary Robinette Kowal@ 🏡‏Verified account @MaryRobinette 19 Jul 2019

          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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        4. Mary Robinette Kowal@ 🏡‏Verified account @MaryRobinette 19 Jul 2019

          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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        5. Mary Robinette Kowal@ 🏡‏Verified account @MaryRobinette 19 Jul 2019

          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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        6. Mary Robinette Kowal@ 🏡‏Verified account @MaryRobinette 19 Jul 2019

          Self-promotion Disguised as a Fun Fact: In my novel #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 …

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        7. Mary Robinette Kowal@ 🏡‏Verified account @MaryRobinette 19 Jul 2019

          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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        2. ted_henderson‏ @ted_henderson 19 Jul 2019
          Replying to @MaryRobinette

          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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        3. Mary Robinette Kowal@ 🏡‏Verified account @MaryRobinette 19 Jul 2019
          Replying to @ted_henderson

          Yes. It does not work.

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        1. Tim O'Connor‏ @timoconnorbl 20 Jul 2019
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          “Astronauts have tried” is the single greatest sentence in this magnificent thread.

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        1. Scott Jackson‏ @SodWarbeast 20 Jul 2019
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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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