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From: gmv@petfe.UUCP (George Verbosh)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Space Toilets
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Date: Wed, 29-Aug-84 14:31:24 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 29 14:31:24 1984
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I'm fairly new to the net, so forgive me if this has been asked before,
but with all the noise about malfunctions on the STS, the toilet seems
to be THE component that fails most often. All this noise has piqued
my curiosity.

HOW does one handle certain, ahem, bodily functions in space?
I would think that lack of gravity would pose some interesting problems,
since you-know-what DOESN'T flow downhill in space.
Also, what do the astronauts do when the toilet breaks? Does having 'the
right stuff' include the ability to 'hold it' for 2 million miles (egads!
remember all those l-o-n-g car trips as a kid? :-))?

(Note for the fainthearted: if you feel the responses to the above
would not constitute family viewing on the net, skip any articles
that refer to the dreaded killer Space Toilet).
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George Verbosh, Perkin-Elmer, 106 Apple St., Tinton Falls, NJ 07724
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