{"id":582270,"date":"2026-04-04T18:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T18:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/582270\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T18:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T18:58:08","slug":"artemis-ii-astronauts-report-burning-smell-from-malfunctioning-23m-toilet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/582270\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemis II astronauts report burning smell from malfunctioning $23M toilet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astronauts on board <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/04\/world-news\/artemis-ii-astronauts-are-more-than-halfway-to-the-moon-as-they-seek-to-break-apollo-13s-record\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Artemis II <\/a>reported a mysterious burning smell coming from the $23 million advanced toilet system which previously malfunctioned after takeoff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/01\/us-news\/artemis-ii-launch-live-updates-as-nasa-sends-astronauts-to-the-moon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Follow The Post\u2019s live updates on the launch of NASA\u2019s Artemis II mission to the moon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/04\/us-news\/artemis-iis-crappy-toilet-cost-23-million-the-2nd-most-expensive-loo-in-history\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Regarding the smell<\/a>, I just wanted to make sure you all were tracking the EGS notes of the kind of burning heater smell that was coming from toilet several times,\u201d astronaut Chrisna Koch, who fixed the toilet on Thursday, radioed to mission control on Saturday, <a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Space.com<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Artemis II crew is now half way to the moon. Best Image \/ BACKGRID<\/p>\n<p>Astronauts on board Artemis II reported a mysterious burning smell coming from the $23 million advanced toilet system which previously malfunctioned after takeoff. Canadian Space Agency<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was never identified as the source, what it exactly was, but it was identified as an unknown smell,\u201d Koch said.<\/p>\n<p>The four <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/02\/us-news\/artemis-ii-is-officially-headed-to-the-moon-after-test-orbit-around-the-earth\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">moon-bound passengers<\/a> reported the smell was similar to the scent of an old electric heater that hasn\u2019t been used in a while, the report stated.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the latest on NASA\u2019s Artemis launch:<\/p>\n<p>The Artemis II\u2019s 10-day journey. Donald Pearsall \/ NY Post Design\/ NASA<\/p>\n<p>The Orion capsule being used in the Artemis II mission. Donald Pearsall \/ NY Post Design \/ ESA<\/p>\n<p>NASA flight controllers initially suspected the mystery burning smell was coming from orange insulation on the toilet\u2019s hygiene bay door.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The crew has clearance to continue use of the commode and Mission Control said there were no \u201cmajor concerns\u201d regarding the reported aroma, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Space.com<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after launch on April 1, the urine hose of the so-called Upper Waste Management System experienced a malfunction, but that was quickly addressed by Koch the following day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Astronauts on board Artemis II reported a mysterious burning smell coming from the $23 million advanced toilet system&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[58777,49,48,6294,307,6705,66,306,36125,886],"class_list":{"0":"post-582270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-artemis-ii","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-moon","12":"tag-nasa","13":"tag-rockets","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-space","16":"tag-space-program","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}