{"id":127925,"date":"2021-09-21T16:22:33","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T23:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/elon-musk-confirms-challenges-with-toilet-on-tourist-spacecraft"},"modified":"2021-09-21T16:22:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T23:22:33","slug":"elon-musk-confirms-challenges-with-toilet-on-tourist-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/elon-musk-confirms-challenges-with-toilet-on-tourist-spacecraft","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Confirms \u201cChallenges\u201d With Toilet on Tourist Spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-confirms-challenges-with-toilet-on-tourist-spacecraft2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maybe try a 100 percent recycling rate for sewage and chemical extraction.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As if going to the bathroom in microgravity wasn\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/watch-astronaut-poop-space\" class=\"\">complicated enough<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds as though the four space tourists on SpaceX\u2019s historic Inspiration4 flight last week had a bit of a smelly mishap. The Waste Management System experienced an \u201canomaly\u201d \u2014 that\u2019s code of \u201cuh oh\u201d in space jargon \u2014 with its suction fan <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/spacex-tourists-struggled-with-space-toilet\" class=\"\">causing the crew to struggle<\/a> with doing their business while floating hundreds of miles above the surface.<\/p>\n<p>Musk also promised a number of improvements for the next all-civilian space tourism flight. \u201cDefinitely upgraded toilets,\u201d Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1440169571466371073\" class=\"\">responded<\/a> to another Twitter account <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeslaOwnersEBay\/status\/1440161033243357192\" class=\"\">suggesting heated toilet seats<\/a>. \u201cWe had some challenges with it this flight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe try a 100 percent recycling rate for sewage and chemical extraction. As if going to the bathroom in microgravity wasn\u2019t complicated enough. It sounds as though the four space tourists on SpaceX\u2019s historic Inspiration4 flight last week had a bit of a smelly mishap. The Waste Management System experienced an \u201canomaly\u201d \u2014 that\u2019s code [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,19,2019,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-chemistry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127925","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}