NASA Astronaut Reveals the Horror of the Toilet at the Space Station

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Living in space can be an unforgettable experience for astronauts. In addition to tense and exciting, outer space also save the horror side.
This is revealed Peggy Whitson, a NASA woman astronaut who had lived in space for 665 days.
Her eyes were teary every time she got an offer to go out into space again.
Not touched, Peggy was reluctant to repeat life in outer space because he was very avoid the toilet.
This is revealed Peggy Whitson, a NASA woman astronaut who had lived in space for 665 days.

According Peggy, ISS toilet is not as severe as the Maximum Absorbency Garment used by astronauts in Apollo's moon mission to the moon.
However, Russian-made toilets worth 19,000 US dollars was considered terrible.

If you want to urinate is easy. There is a funnel equipped with a fan to suck up the urine so it does not float, "he said.
But if you want to do something other than urinate, Peggy says it is something more challenging and creepy.
All the ISS astronauts use the toilet with a small hole equipped with a fan to suck up the dirt.
Once finished, stool waste will be sealed in a plastic bag and waiting to be discarded on a space dump day.
Sometimes the toilets also have problems, so the astronauts have to catch a variety of drifting dirt,

In the end all the waste including the astronauts' excrement will be dumped into the ISS cargo ships and burned in the Earth's atmosphere.

Approximately 80 to 85 percent of urine has been successfully recycled into drinking water, and the rest into salt-scented rubbish.

If you're still wondering how to rest on the ISS, watch a video of the Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti follows.

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