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Astronauts use adult diapers during take offs and landings as well.
How do astronauts use the bathroom in space. After the spacewalk the astronauts remove the diapers and dispose them in a storage area in the craft. Astronauts in spacesuits go to the bathroom in high tech diapers called maximum absorption garments but the international space station use a 19 million dollar toilet that uses suction for pooping in plastic bags and in a hose for urine thats recycled into drinking water to be used by the crew. How they managed to go is the most common question astronauts are asked says mike mullane a veteran of three space shuttle missions and author of do your ears pop in space and 500 other. Going to the bathroom in space is anything but an easy procedure.
So when apollo astronauts left their spacecraft they wore a fecal containment. Because they cant simply drop their space suit and go astronauts typically use a superabsorbent adult diaper. Astronaut karen nygard shows how an astronaut can do a shampoo in space. On the space shuttle and international space station iss astronauts went back to the old fashioned way of bathing in space.
These diapers are able to hold up to a quart of liquid. Astronauts couldnt use this same bag system to catch their waste while wearing space suits on the lunar surface. How do astronauts relieve themselves in space.
