6 Incredible Toilets In Space

In space, no one can hear you poop… because sound can’t travel in a vacuum. However, on the International Space Station they can hear you poop, but that’s OK because… well, everybody poops – even astronauts. Yes, unequivocally one of the coolest jobs on the planet (and a great distance above it) presents one of the most troubling conundrums for humanity to find a solution to. How do you whiz in space?

1. 10 years at space camp for this?

plumber24hours.co.uk

When things get bad, which in space is almost an inevitability, astronauts are expected to do the unthinkable and take a crap in a sack then eject it from the craft. Unfortunately, this is not as simple as all that. As Sean Bean once said, “One does not simply poo out of a spaceship”. And he was right.

2. I put it where?

plumber24hours.co.uk

God bless those crazy, crazy Russians. When the American’s wouldn’t blink an eyelid at spending a quarter of a billion dollars on a contraption that turns wee into water, they simply rig a few tubes, pans and barrels together and call it science. You’d never see a Japanese man on one of those.

3. The lukewarm war

plumber24hours.co.uk

The International Space Station – not really a fair name for a miracle of modern science. It’s more of an American–Russian and occasionally Chinese Space Station. Things do have a habit of becoming rather heated up their as well, especially with regards to the maintenance and usage policy of their toilet.

4. Desperate times…

plumber24hours.co.uk

Unfortunately, being an astronaut is not all fun and games. While floating around space squeezing beef paste into your fellow shipmate’s face may seem like fun, getting a space shuttle off the ground and then back down safely is anything but fun and games. In fact, it’s self-defecatingly scary; lucky they’re all wearing adult diapers, then.

5. Turning water into wine… sort of

plumber24hours.co.uk

Remember that scene in Waterworld, where a stricken Kevin Costner uses a machine to filter his urine into water for him and his plant? Of course you don’t – no one went to see that film! But imagine how useful that device would be on a long car journey. No more time-consuming toilet breaks or forking out a small fortune for pricy bottled water. Surely such a machine cannot exist.

6. JAXA’s wearable toilet

plumber24hours.co.uk

The real problem with relieving yourself in space is not worrying about whether any waste substance is going to damage valuable instruments, but having to let the other members of the crew know what your doing. Luckily, this is no longer an issue with the incredible wearable toilet.