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Spend tens of billions.
Poop in a bag.
Poop in a space bag.
And that bag cost tens of thousands of dollars to design!
When you add up people’s time to design and test, absolutely. Could have crossed $100,000 and it would be a teaspnable cost. Wouldn’t want to half ass a space poop bag.
This how it works in any business, R&D is high but businesses tend to spead that cost out per item when massproducted. One off or limited uses are always far more than mass production.
Well, you didn’t think they spent $10,000 on a hammer, $20,000 on a toilet seat?
Fun fact!
One of those “fecal specimens” escaped containment during the Apollo 10 lunar flyby and floated around the crew module. The event would forever be immortalized in the mission’s radio transcripts:
Cernan: “Where did that come from?”
Stafford: “Get me a napkin quick. There’s a turd floating through the air.”
Young: “I didn’t do it. It ain’t one of mine.”
Cernan: “I don’t think it’s one of mine.”
Stafford: “Mine was a little more sticky than that. Throw that away.”
Young: “God Almighty”
If ever there was an EWW moment, this is it.
At least it would more of less stay together, right?
Did the video tell you about the diet the Astronauts had to eat prior to and while on the mission?
The engineering that NASA did and still does really is amazing.
I’d never considered this, growing up I was always taught ‘squeeze pouch’ or toothpaste tube-food type stuff.
It was that, it was just a very low fiber diet so they pooped a lot less.
I…uhh…that just reinforces the plausibity of my mental image of astronaut diarrhea…
🤮
HAHA
Worst. stress ball. ever.
I don’t know. It’s soft and warm.
🤢
Frank Sinatra never said anything about pooping in a bag! This is outrageous!
Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars
Then poop in a bag out there by Jupiter and Mars
In other words, please be true
In other words, massage your poo.
Some of those bags are still on the moon today, in the lockers on the descent stages where they were left.
If the aliens stop by the moon on their way to Earth, there is no way they would want to visit us.
Is this the design from the guy in The Big Bang Theory show?
lol. Perhaps they used meatloaf to test it.
For anyone interested in more astronaut poop stories she other similar weird stuff I can highly recommend “packing for Mars” by Mary Roach.
Some of us still use them. WAG bag. Plz don’t leave poop in my wilderness.
Plz don’t leave poop in my wilderness
I have some bad news for you…
You left human feces in the woods?
Bears eat people
Probablydefinitely back when I was a boy scout on camping trips. But mostly just…literally all of nature shits in the woods. 👀It’s a great fertilizer too.
Human poo sometimes contains human pathogens. I can’t catch much from a bird or a cat or something.
Did they have a hundred bags?
The mission took 8 days and 3 hours, so assuming 1 poop a day for 3 astronauts, they’d be fine with 30 (I’m sure they had extras just in case).
