One thing I didn't realize about Alan Shepard's original suborbital flight is that he experienced much higher G-forces on re-entry (11.5) than even astronauts coming back from the Moon (7), which explains why space tourism suborbital flights are just barely over the Kármán line
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There's some story about a capsule flight and a turd goes floating past (since they were excreting into plastic bags). I couldn't say which, but I'm fairly sure the audio and/or transcript was saved for posterity.
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It was Apollo 10
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There's a reason everyone eats but no one shits in space movies and TV.
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