{"id":359657,"date":"2026-04-02T03:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/359657\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T03:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:38:15","slug":"how-will-the-artemis-astronauts-go-to-the-toilet-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/359657\/","title":{"rendered":"How will the Artemis astronauts go to the toilet in space?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">When you&#8217;re in zero gravity, how do you go to the toilet? That&#8217;s what Nasa scientists have spent more than $23 million figuring out in time for the launch of Artemis II later this week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">They&#8217;ve come up with what they&#8217;re calling the &#8216;Universal Waste Management System&#8217;, which allows for both stool and urine, and is designed for women and men. Artemis II, which is the first lunar fly-around mission in more than 50 years, is due to launch on 1 April. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">Following on from the unmanned Artemis I mission in 2022, Nasa&#8217;s Artemis program is preparing for deep-space missions &#8211; with an ultimate goal of reaching Mars in the 2030s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">Video edited by Alex Foster. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you&#8217;re in zero gravity, how do you go to the toilet? That&#8217;s what Nasa scientists have spent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-359657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}