{"id":374144,"date":"2026-04-04T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/374144\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T05:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:00:17","slug":"artemis-ii-astronaut-becomes-space-plumber-to-fix-blocked-toilet-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/374144\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemis II astronaut becomes \u2018space plumber\u2019 to fix blocked toilet | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Artemis II astronaut became a \u201cspace plumber\u201d for the day, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tv\/us-news\/artemis-ii-moon-space-travel-b2950858.html\" title=\"Young space enthusiast\u2019s adorable response to launch of Artemis II goes viral\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the spacecraft <\/a>encountered toilet trouble.<\/p>\n<p>On the first day of the historic mission, the crew reported the $30m (\u00a322.6m) Universal Waste Management System (UWMS) onboard the rocket was not working due to an issue with the toilet fan.<\/p>\n<p>After mission control teams on the ground assessed data, they were able to fix the problem with the help of the Artemis II crew, notably Christina Koch.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the malfunction, Koch said: \u201cI\u2019m proud to call myself the space plumber\u201d, adding the whole crew breathed a sigh of relief when the \u201cmost important piece of equipment\u201d began functioning as normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Artemis II astronaut became a \u201cspace plumber\u201d for the day, after the spacecraft encountered toilet trouble. On&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":["post-374144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}