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Topic: New Space Potty " astronauts have to go, we want to allow them to boldly go"  (Read 170 times)

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-launch-23-million-female-friendly-toilet-to-international-space-station-2020-10-02/

A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket blasted off from Virginia's Eastern Shore Friday evening and boosted a Cygnus cargo ship into orbit loaded with four tons of supplies and equipment bound for the International Space Station, including a more female-friendly $23 million space toilet.


"When the astronauts have to go, we want to allow them to boldly go," quipped Jim Fuller of Collins Aerospace, builder of the compact toilet.

Running 24 hours behind because of a ground software issue, the rocket's two Russian-built RD-181 first-stage engines thundered to life at 9:16 p.m. EDT, instantly pushing the Cygnus cargo ship skyward from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport — MARS — at NASA's Wallops Island, Virginia, test facility.

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If you gotta go, you gotta go so I don't guess space with stop that.

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