{"id":130126,"date":"2021-11-06T12:24:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T19:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/nasa-astronaut-spacex-forcing-her-to-pee-in-diaper-is-suboptimal"},"modified":"2021-11-06T12:24:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T19:24:31","slug":"nasa-astronaut-spacex-forcing-her-to-pee-in-diaper-is-suboptimal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/nasa-astronaut-spacex-forcing-her-to-pee-in-diaper-is-suboptimal","title":{"rendered":"NASA Astronaut: SpaceX Forcing Her to Pee in Diaper Is \u201cSuboptimal\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-astronaut-spacex-forcing-her-to-pee-in-diaper-is-suboptimal2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The article details the discomfort astronauts may feel due to malfunctioning waste management systems. Luckily their critical systems are not compromised. It\u2019s also very difficult for them to make these repairs up in orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I guess adult diapers are the way of the future. \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A NASA astronaut stationed aboard the International Space Station acknowledged this week that a <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/spacex-redesigned-capsule-toilet\" class=\"\">design flaw in the toilet<\/a> built into SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon module will force she and her colleagues <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/nasa-spacex-toilet-still-broken\" class=\"\">to use diapers<\/a> during their upcoming return journey to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, we are unable to use the toilet on Dragon for the return trip, and of course, that\u2019s suboptimal,\u201d McArthur told reporters on Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-crew-2-astronauts-toilet-trouble-landing\" class=\"\">according to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You might remember some drama during SpaceX\u2019s first space tourism launch, back in September, when <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/spacex-tourists-struggled-with-space-toilet\" class=\"\">it was widely reported<\/a> that the civilian crew of Inspiration4 <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/spacex-tourists-struggled-with-space-toilet\" class=\"\">ran into some trouble<\/a> with the spacecraft\u2019s waste management system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article details the discomfort astronauts may feel due to malfunctioning waste management systems. Luckily their critical systems are not compromised. It\u2019s also very difficult for them to make these repairs up in orbit. Well, I guess adult diapers are the way of the future. \ud83d\ude02 A NASA astronaut stationed aboard the International Space Station [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130126","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\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}