Everybody wonders it, so we thought we’d answer it … just how exactly do astronauts use the toilet in space?
Well it’s officially World Toilet Day today and — with a little help from our friend Tim Peake — we thought we’d help answer the most frequently asked question astronauts receive: How do astronauts use the toilet in space?
Take it away, Tim!
This article is a helpful resource for Deep Space Diary Activity 3.4: Pack Your Payload. Engineers working on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have successfully folded and packed its sunshield for its upcoming million-mile (roughly 1.5 million kilometer) journey, which begins later this year. The sunshield — a five-layer, diamond-shaped […]
Read more →In preparation for the ExoMars rover Mars landing, scientists are creating 3D models (called Digital Terrain Models, or DTM) of the terrain in Oxia Planum.
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