More than half way to the moon, the Artemis II astronauts are grappling with a toilet problem
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The four astronauts on the Artemis II mission currently hurtling through space have had a largely quiet journey so far. Very few in-flight issues have cropped up that could disrupt their peace of mind.
Except, that is, for the toilet.
The Artemis II crewβs 16.5-foot-wide (5-meter-wide) Orion capsule has a waste management-related problem that arose in the early hours of Saturday as Day 3 was winding down.
βItβs an issue with dumping the waste out of the toilet,β Artemis II Flight Director Judd Frieling told reporters Saturday morning. βAnd so it appears to me that we probably have some frozen urine in the vent line.β
The astronauts β NASAβs Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen β were still fast asleep by midmorning nearly 200,000 miles (nearly 320,000 kilometers) from Earth as mission controllers continued to troubleshoot the issue. And by 3:30 p.m. ET Saturday, early in Day 4 of the flight, mission controllers had a plan of attack: to warm up the frozen line by rotating the capsule to put the frozen urine into the sun. That unclogged the pipe, allowing the waste management system to expel the urine outside the capsule, potentially clearing the system to allow the astronauts to begin using the toilet again.
Shortly after the attempt to expel some of the urine, mission control said the toilet was βgoβ β but βfor fecal use only.β
The process of venting the urine outside the capsule was a moment Koch also showed on camera earlier in the mission. The pee trickles by like glowing gems in the vacuum of space as it zooms by the Orionβs windows.
The crew also reported a burning smell coming from the bathroom, though mission controllers noted it was likely just the gasket material around the door.
But itβs not the crewβs first run-in with toilet troubles.
Shortly after launching to orbit from NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, the crew realized the toiletβs pump wasnβt working. Pumps are important and used for a variety of reasons, including assisting with pulling waste from the body. In space, there is no gravity to assist with such expulsions.
That problem had a relatively straightforward fix: The crewmembers simply hadnβt put in enough water to prime the pump. After they topped that off, the system began functioning as intended.
The astronauts celebrated that small victory on Thursday during a virtual interview with news media.
βIβm proud to call myself the space plumber,β Koch said. βWe were all breathing a sigh of relief when it turned out to be just fine. We did originally think that there could have been potentially something fouling up the motor.
βLuckily, we are all systems go,β she said.
βThe most important piece of equipmentβ
The onboard toilet is perhaps the spaceflight amenity held most dear to astronauts who value creature comforts.
βI like to say that it is probably the most important piece of equipment on board,β Koch added during her Thursday dispatch from Orion.
With the Orion toilet malfunctioning, the astronauts are resorting to a technique employed by the deep-space explorers of the mid-20th century.
In the Apollo era, astronauts did not have a toilet. They relied solely on bags to relieve themselves.
And the process was not always error-free. During the 1969 Apollo 10 mission β the one in which Thomas Stafford, John Young and Eugene Cernan circumnavigated the moon β Stafford reported back to mission control on Day 6 of the mission that a piece of waste was floating through the cabin, according to once-confidential government documents.
βGive me a napkin, quick,β Stafford was recorded saying a few minutes before Cernan spots more: βHereβs another goddamn turd.β
The astronauts famously hated the bagged-poop approach.
βThe fecal bag system was marginally functional and was described as very βdistastefulβ by the crew,β an official NASA report from 2007 later revealed. βThe bags provided no odor control in the small capsule and the odor was prominent.β
The Orion crew is relying on a similar system right now thatβs formally referred to as the the Collapsable Contingency Urinal or CCU. Astronaut Don Pettit, following along with the mission from home, shared an image on his social media feed.
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