The Space Toilet

Astronaut Chris Hadfield explains how to go to the bathroom in space.

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When you go to the bathroom on earth,

your're lying on gravity...pretty, pretty heavily

Imagine if you're half way done and someone shut off gravity

It'd be a mess and you float out the toilet

So, when we designed our space toilet

first to a seat belt on it, to hold you down

and then, we decided to separate solids and liquids because it is easier to store that way

So, we just have tube and have air pulled to the tube