How Do They Use The Bathroom In Space

Astronauts use a funnel equipped with a fan that suctions their pee away so it does not float away.

How do they use the bathroom in space. In addition to using the bathroom regularly astronauts need to do all of the same things they do on earth including eating and sleeping of course in space the lack of gravity makes everyday activities not so ordinary. A mock up of the bathroom on the space shuttle at johnson space center in texas. When space flyers have mastered the proper alignment they can move to functional trainer.

Keeping clean in space is as important as it is at home and even doubly so since astronauts at times spend long hours in space suits wearing diapers so they can stay outside and get their work done. Astronauts say that they are most often asked how they go to the bathroom in space. Stephanie pappas fast forward to nasa s space shuttle program and astronauts finally had toilets.

This is a working toilet equipped with the same airflow vents used on the space shuttle. In space weightlessness causes fluids to distribute uniformly around human bodies. What they had was basically a plastic bag every time they had to do a no.

2 space toilets didn t become much more sophisticated by the time the first apollo missions launched. Then it takes about eight days for the liquid to become drinking water again for the astronauts. Astronaut karen nygard shows how an astronaut can do a shampoo in space.

Dave mosher the toilet system still wasn t that easy to use the opening was less than 4 inches wide about a quarter of the size of a regular toilet hole. This is how astronauts aboard the international space station take care of their toilet business.