Fecal bag description begins at minute 2:00.
TIL Apollo astronaunts had to use a fecal bag, leave it open, massage in a bacterocide before discarding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaDSuCXIRms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaDSuCXIRms
Fecal bag description begins at minute 2:00.
30 Comments
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 31 pts · 234d
Spend tens of billions.
Poop in a bag.
dance_ninja@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 234d
Poop in a space bag.
johncritzman@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 234d
And that bag cost tens of thousands of dollars to design!
snooggums@piefed.world · 8 pts · 234d
When you add up people's time to design and test, absolutely. Could have crossed $100,000 and it would be a teaspnable cost. Wouldn't want to half ass a space poop bag.
This how it works in any business, R&D is high but businesses tend to spead that cost out per item when massproducted. One off or limited uses are always far more than mass production.
Billygoat@piefed.social · 5 pts · 233d
Well, you didn’t think they spent $10,000 on a hammer, $20,000 on a toilet seat?
very_well_lost@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 233d
Fun fact!
One of those "fecal specimens" escaped containment during the Apollo 10 lunar flyby and floated around the crew module. The event would forever be immortalized in the mission's radio transcripts:
Quilotoa@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 233d
If ever there was an EWW moment, this is it.
Drusas@fedia.io · 3 pts · 233d
At least it would more of less stay together, right?
IWW4@lemmy.zip · 25 pts · 234d
Did the video tell you about the diet the Astronauts had to eat prior to and while on the mission?
The engineering that NASA did and still does really is amazing.
IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 233d
I'd never considered this, growing up I was always taught 'squeeze pouch' or toothpaste tube-food type stuff.
IWW4@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 233d
It was that, it was just a very low fiber diet so they pooped a lot less.
IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 233d
I..uhh..that just reinforces the plausibity of my mental image of astronaut diarrhea..
🤮
IWW4@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 233d
HAHA
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 20 pts · 234d
Worst. stress ball. ever.
Quilotoa@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 234d
I don't know. It's soft and warm.
IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 233d
🤢
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 14 pts · 234d
Frank Sinatra never said anything about pooping in a bag! This is outrageous!
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 234d
Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars
Then poop in a bag out there by Jupiter and Mars
In other words, please be true
In other words, massage your poo.
mkwt@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 234d
Some of those bags are still on the moon today, in the lockers on the descent stages where they were left.
Drusas@fedia.io · 1 pts · 233d
If the aliens stop by the moon on their way to Earth, there is no way they would want to visit us.
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 233d
Some of us still use them. WAG bag. Plz don't leave poop in my wilderness.
IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 233d
I have some bad news for you...
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 233d
You left human feces in the woods?
kalpol@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 233d
Bears eat people
IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 233d
Probablydefinitely back when I was a boy scout on camping trips. But mostly just...literally all of nature shits in the woods. 👀It's a great fertilizer too.
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 233d
Human poo sometimes contains human pathogens. I can't catch much from a bird or a cat or something.
RazzleDazzle@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 233d
For anyone interested in more astronaut poop stories she other similar weird stuff I can highly recommend "packing for Mars" by Mary Roach.
certified_expert@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 234d
Is this the design from the guy in The Big Bang Theory show?
Quilotoa@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 234d
lol. Perhaps they used meatloaf to test it.
bonenode@piefed.social · 1 pts · 234d
IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 233d
The mission took 8 days and 3 hours, so assuming 1 poop a day for 3 astronauts, they'd be fine with 30 (I'm sure they had extras just in case).