With more and more people visiting the space station, the need for more compact toilets is natural. With more and more astronauts travelling to the space station of late, and a much higher visit possible after the forays made by SpaceX this year and the ones planned by Boeing next year, space travel for tourists is set to become a reality soon. While these toilets are still functioning well, over the years, astronauts have been giving feedbacks on the difficulty and discomfort in using them, especially for women.īesides this, the existing toilets are heavy and occupy space. What is Nasa's $23 million toilet all about?įor decades, astronauts at the International Space Station have been using Russian-made toilets. The spacecraft being launched tonight is named after one of our Kalpana Chawla. Kalpana Chawla (is being) honoured on this mission of significance to the International Space Station."Īs has become the custom for each #Cygnus resupply craft is named after a historic space explorer. The Cygnus being launched tonight is being named after Nasa astronaut Kalpana Chawla who twice flew into space in 1997 and then in the ill-fated mission in 2003 in which she and her six crew mates lost their lives. "As has become the custom for Northrop Grumman, each Cygnus resupply spacecraft is named after a noted space explorer who contributed to the cause of human space exploration. This resupply spacecraft also has an Indian connection as Nasa has named it after Indian-American astronaut Kalpana Chawla. Nasa had to abort the launch about 2 minutes and 40 seconds before the lift-off due to "an unknown problem with a component of ground support equipment". The space toilet was a part of the resupply spacecraft that Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket was supposed to carry. This brand new, highly sophisticated, and extremely expensive space toilet was set to leave Earth on Thursday (September 30) but a last-minute glitch forced Nasa to abort the launch.
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