Canadian Astronaut Reveals What Happens to Space Poop

Posted by Addy Dugdale at 10:52 PM on October 8, 2007


The question of how astronauts go to the bathroom has been answered before (vacuum, thigh clamps, peen tube, in-bowl camera — sounds like a night out at my favourite after-hours) but do you know what happens to the, ahem waste product? Well, according to Col. Chris Hadfield from the Canadian Space Agency, it gets recycled as a shooting star. Details on how to do your ablutions in space after the jump.

 

That reporter's kinda sucky. [YouTube] via Wired]

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