Astronauts way defecation

Tickling not question how astronauts defecate with super armor that. For astronauts, learning to use the toilet in the spacecraft may be more difficult than when he must settle a physics equation to calculate the trajectory of the rocket being launched.

To that end, NASA has a specially designed training room at the Johnson Space Center in Houston where astronauts can hone "technique" to use their toilet before setting off on their journey to orbit in real space. In these places there are two toilet training space spaceship that positional training room (for practice) and functional training (for rinsing).

Positional training is not practical to use the toilet as toilet in general, but rather a true replica of the toilet in the space shuttle. The width of the openings on the toilet seat only about 10 cm (standard toilet on earth has openings measuring 30 to 45 cm).

And not only that, there is a small camera in it, just below the edge of the aperture, and the camera image is displayed in the monitor that is located in front of the toilet seat. With all this, the astronauts can ensure that their bodies are in the right position so that the dirt they will fall through the small hole located on the toilet.

When astronauts have mastered this technique well, they can move to functional training. The training room is in the form of a regular toilet equipped with ventilation air flow similar to that used on the spacecraft. Here, the astronauts will practice how to eliminate both urine and feces on their rest.

In spacecraft, the urine is handled in a different way by way of handling solid waste. There is a long hose attached to the suction side of the toilet seat, and astronauts will urinate through this hose. This channel would have a shape that is different for men and women.

Women need to put the top of the drain urine directly against their bodies, so that the side drains the urine of women should have to get a vent to allow air to flow when the vacuum is turned on. And women can choose between three channels with different shaped top, there are two channels with oval top and one at the top of the circle.

While the channel for men is very simple. Where the channel has only one shape with a circular top, and not ventilated. And lastly, to the former toilet paper, a separate suction hose on the side of the toilet can be fitted with a "cup" bigger and lined with a plastic bag.

Strap on a footrest can help to hold astronauts remain in place, other than that there are two limiting the thigh on the side of the toilet which can swing from the top of the foot to help someone stay on top of the toilet. But not everyone is using it. Before carrying out the mission launch into space, astronauts gathered in this room and compare their techniques to remain in position when they are in a state of weightlessness.

Then where subsequently all the waste? Do not worry, they will not come hurtling to the Earth's atmosphere and landed on the roof of your house. Solid waste will be dried to remove all water vapor, then compressed and stored in a storage container which would then be discarded after the spacecraft had landed. While urine will be sent into space for granted.

In the international space station, the urine is recycled through a special water treatment and back into drinking water. While the solid waste will be put into a plastic bag. Every time someone goes to the bathroom, plastic bags will be sealed and compacted like a trash compactor. The bag is then collected and placed in a special vehicle that is launched into space.

Shitting affairs will be even more challenging when astronauts are on a mission "space-walk" outside their spacecraft. The astronauts will typically use adult diapers "super-absorbent". These diapers can save up to one liter of fluid. In addition, astronauts also use adult diapers during take-off and landing because certainly is not possible for them to use the toilet at the moment