All You (Didn’t) Need To Know About Peeing And Pooping In Space

A bag taped to your butt, a condom shaped sheath and ‘expanded’ male egos are the long and short of it

It all started with her article on what it will take for the first woman and the next man to walk the moon by 2024, for NASA’s Project Artemis. But the response that writer Mary Robinette Kowal received on her NYT article about Gender in space showed her that a lot of people wondered if there would me more women in space if it was simply made easier for them to pee up there.

But exactly how does one pee when up in space whether you are a man or a woman? And poop for that matter? From condom shaped sacs, to adult diapers, Kowal’s twitter thread spares no detail on how to get on with the important businesses of number one and number two when in zero gravity and is a fly, I mean eye opener if there ever was one.

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