Carmi Levy

She was removing parts, adding parts, reconfiguring, whatever.

And then just before bed, she asked, you know, okay, so where are we at on the problem?

And they said that overnight they could use it as much as they wished.

And so it looks like problem solved, disaster averted.

Jared Isaacman, who's the NASA administrator, when he flew into space for the first time, his capsule, he was on a Crew Dragon, that also had a pretty lousy toilet and they had problems for the entire four days they were in orbit.

So this is a common problem.

We've had it on ISS, we've had it on shuttle, they've had it on Soyuz, now they've had it on

Orion.

And thankfully, you know, no longer a crappy situation.

No, no, especially because now they're co-ed crews.

And so what, are you going to tell women that that's the way they need to go in space?

No, we have the technology now.

We should be able to apply it.

And thankfully, it's working now, which I find it interesting, though.

After they fixed the toilet, they had been using those bags, right?

And so they were peeing into these bags.

They're called CCUs.

I love that we get to talk about this because it's actual news.

And the astronauts asked, now that we have these extra CCUs that are filled, because we didn't plan on it, they're called collapsible contingency urinals, they were going to dump them overboard to kind of clear the space.

And mission control said, no, don't do it, because it could affect the trajectory of the capsule.