As a kid, I’ve asked myself this question many times: how are space toilets designed so that when you sit down on them for a big job, everything that comes out of your body doesn’t start floating around and basically just creating a big mess? The following video provides the answer, and comes straight from the mouth of a NASA engineer Chris Hadfield, a space shuttle astronaut from the Canadian Space Agency (Thanks d0d0burd!).
What happens when you crap in outer space?
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