Spaceflight is hard, but crewed spaceflight is a million times harder. With humans onboard, engineers have to account for a long list of biological needs—including going to the bathroom. Designing a ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The four astronauts on the Artemis II mission currently hurtling through space have had a largely quiet journey so far. Very few ...

As NASA’s Artemis II astronauts make their way to the moon this weekend, their test flight has gone surprisingly well without any major issues, save for one piece of technology giving the crew some ...

The four astronauts on the Artemis II mission are more than halfway to the moon after launching Wednesday from Kennedy Space Center, but a familiar problem has surfaced. For the second time since ...

The four astronauts on the Artemis II mission currently hurtling through space have had a largely quiet journey so far. Very few in-flight issues have cropped up that could disrupt their peace of mind ...

The Artemis II mission crew flushed out an issue with their onboard toilet system shortly after launching into space on April 1, NASA said. The astronauts worked with NASA's mission control team in ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Toilet plumbing problems, email glitches and issues phoning home: Astronauts are just like us! Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

The Artemis II crew performed system checks on the Orion spacecraft after launching from Kennedy Space Center. Astronauts manually tested the spacecraft's handling in preparation for future docking ...

Mission control confirms ‘toilet go for use’ after glitch sorted A blinking fault light on Nasa’s Orion spacecraft signalled an unwelcome setback at the start of the historic Artemis II mission: the ...

While in orbit around Earth, the Artemis II crew called down to the mission team on the ground to report a problem with their toilet. They noticed a blinking fault light that NASA’s associate ...

The Universal Waste Management System aboard the Orion capsule is an innovation in deep space toiletry (it seems to be fixed now). By Katrina Miller While in orbit around Earth, the Artemis II crew ...