Everything about the Artemis II mission has gone more or less according to plan \u2014 the lunar flyby, the systems checks, the long cruise back toward Earth. Then the toilet broke. Hours after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, the spacecraft’s Universal Waste Management System, a piece of equipment that cost NASA $23 million to develop, began malfunctioning.<\/p>\n
What happened? The crew cannot flush wastewater into space. According to an AFP report, the faecal disposal system, which is in a separate conduit, is working fine, and it’s strictly a urine problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything about the Artemis II mission has gone more or less according to plan \u2014 the lunar flyby,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[182991,182970,183011,182997,182986,182973,182977,183010,182967,183016,183003,183004,182985,182996,182971,182975,182994,183006,182982,183008,183009,183014,85,46,183000,182999,182983,183001,183012,182984,183002,182968,183013,183007,182972,182978,182976,182995,183005,182988,141,145,182993,183015,182998,182989,182987,182969,182979,182990,182980,182981,182974,182992],"class_list":["post-383116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-burning-heater-smell-orion","tag-23-million-space-toilet","tag-23-million-toilet","tag-artemis-ii-crew-2026","tag-artemis-ii-flight-director-rick-henfling","tag-artemis-ii-lunar-mission-2026","tag-artemis-ii-mission-updates","tag-artemis-ii-return-journey","tag-artemis-ii-toilet-failure","tag-artemis-ii-vs-apollo-plumbing","tag-astronaut-hygiene-in-microgravity","tag-cape-canaveral-liftoff","tag-chemical-biofilm-clogging","tag-christina-koch-interview","tag-christina-koch-space-plumber","tag-collapsible-contingency-urine-disposal-devices","tag-compacting-solid-waste-bags","tag-deep-space-chemical-reaction","tag-fecal-disposal-system","tag-friday-splashdown-schedule","tag-houston-space-center-news","tag-how-astronauts-go-to-the-bathroom","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-johnson-space-center-press-conference","tag-lori-glaze-nasa","tag-microgravity-suction-system","tag-mission-control-houston","tag-most-expensive-toilet-in-history","tag-nasa-deep-space-heaters","tag-nasa-exploration-systems-development","tag-nasa-space-toilet-broken","tag-nasa-waste-management-cost","tag-orion-capsule-diameter","tag-orion-capsule-plumbing-issue","tag-orion-spacecraft-systems","tag-orion-splashdown-pacific-ocean","tag-orion-toilet-noise-levels","tag-pacific-ocean-splashdown","tag-pooping-in-special-bags","tag-science","tag-space","tag-space-bathroom-alone-time","tag-space-mission-malfunctions","tag-space-plumber-koch","tag-space-plumbing-emergency","tag-space-toilet-clogged","tag-universal-waste-management-system","tag-universal-waste-management-system-uwms","tag-urine-disposal-devices","tag-urine-treatment-system-failure","tag-wastewater-evacuation-challenge","tag-wastewater-tank-blockage","tag-wastewater-tank-debris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383116","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=383116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}