The Orion spacecraft’s toilet system has failed for the second time since the Artemis II crew launched toward the Moon, forcing astronauts to switch to backup waste collection bags while an odor ...
When Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman stepped to the microphone at NASA’s postflight news conference on April 16, 2026, the ...
The problems caused by the first bathroom with a door on a voyage to the Moon have turned it into an unexpected focus of the ...
Do astronauts really flush waste into space? Not quite. NASA’s Orion spacecraft uses advanced vacuum-based systems to safely ...
After a successful trip around the Moon, everything has been going smoothly on the Orion spacecraft’s journey back to Earth – ...
Just hours after Artemis 2 launched on April 1, the toilet’s urine collection fan jammed. Artemis 2 Mission Specialist ...
Managing human waste, in particular, has seemingly proven as difficult as ever. The culprit: a newfangled $30 million space ...