{"id":113737,"date":"2020-10-02T09:26:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T16:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/potty-training-nasa-tests-new-23m-titanium-space-toilet"},"modified":"2020-10-02T09:26:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T16:26:51","slug":"potty-training-nasa-tests-new-23m-titanium-space-toilet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/potty-training-nasa-tests-new-23m-titanium-space-toilet","title":{"rendered":"Potty training: NASA tests new $23M titanium space toilet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/potty-training-nasa-tests-new-23m-titanium-space-toilet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 NASA\u2019s first new space potty in decades \u2014 a $23 million titanium toilet better suited for women \u2014 is getting a not-so-dry run at the International Space Station before eventually flying to the moon.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s packed inside a cargo ship that should have blasted off late Thursday from Wallops Island, Virginia. But the launch was aborted with just two minutes remaining in the countdown. Northrop Grumman said it would try again Friday night if engineers can figure out what went wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Barely 100 pounds (45 kilograms) and just 28 inches (71 centimeters) tall, the new toilet is roughly half as big as the two Russian-built ones at the space station. It\u2019s more camper-size to fit into the NASA Orion capsules that will carry astronauts to the moon in a few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 NASA\u2019s first new space potty in decades \u2014 a $23 million titanium toilet better suited for women \u2014 is getting a not-so-dry run at the International Space Station before eventually flying to the moon. It\u2019s packed inside a cargo ship that should have blasted off late Thursday from Wallops Island, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}