Canon EOS 5D Mark II
ƒ/2.8
24 mm
1/40
160
With foot straps and handles to brace against blastoff in zero gravity.
And the hose allowed women and men to pee standing up… and in space, nobody leaves the seat up. The Waste Collection System is a non-trivial engineering challenge. As space tourist Richard Garriott told me, “imagine a toothpaste tube being squeezed in zero gravity. It comes out horizontally, but there is no gravity pull to pinch it off. That has to be done manually, and it’s not pretty.”
The poop was collected in a bag, exposed to the vacuum of space for disinfection, but retained for the return flight to Earth.
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