The Incredible and Hilarious Engineering of Answering Nature's Call... IN SPACE!

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[SAString]

I've been a space-crazy kid since the early 60s, and I've never loved astronauts more than that conversation by the Apollo 10 astronauts about whose turds were floating around the spacecraft. Just golden.

[unculturedweeb]

Gotta love it when Simon's trying to be serious and something in the script causes him to break out in a fit of giggles.

[sniperblast]

By dog rules, the moon belonged to Buzz Aldrin

[probably-nobody]

Saying “peecicle” without even cracking a smile is more professional than I’ll ever be.

[DeadGothicRed]

Flight director to astronaut: "Hey youre back early"

Astronauts back after being gone for 4 hours: "We shit our suits"

FD:"Wha...what?"

Astronauts throws space shuttle keys on desk and waddling away "WE SHIT OUR SUITS. GOOD NIGHT."

[searcaig]

Extremely interesting and a subject that I am very familiar with as a diver and former saturation chamber operator.

Using a drysuit for diving requires a pee valve especially when doing technical dives that require long decompression times. Even on normal dives if in perfect buoyancy, where a diver is in effect weightless, there is the effect of immersion diuresis whereby fluid from the tissues are then routed to the bladder via the kidneys and you need to pee more often that normal. This is fine in a wetsuit but in a drysuit a condom catheter and pee valve are essential, and even for female divers some preparation (i.e. shaving the pubic hair) a "She Pee" can be glued in place and similarly connected to a pee valve.

When living in saturation / decompression chambers one is still affected by earth's gravity and basically the same as living outside except that when it comes to poo, one has a toilet that flushes to the outside of the chamber using the pressure differential similar to the spacecraft system.

For safety reasons (I believe) the valves to operate the flush are external and the responsibility of the chamber operators. There is a reported incident of a saturation diver being stuck on the toilet when the chamber operator opened the valves while the diver has been sitting on the toilet resulting in bowel damage. Perhaps something for your research team to investigate for a future "today I found out" episode.

[robertneal]

"Close encounter of the turd kind". Definitely one of your funniest lines...ever!

[ianray]

When nature calls, don't let it leave a voicemail

[FliesFLL]

I fly Boeing 767 freighters and some of our flights are 8-10 hours long. I have no problem not eating/holding a shit for that long, but occasionally someone will "Drop a Duece", or take a dump. Problem: On 767 freighters, the lavatory is in the cockpit. Yes it has a door, but it is only about three feet behind the FO's seat and as a result when someone takes a dump....Everyone smells it.

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[AdelynSchmidt]

My great-grandfather was an engineer & he worked on this exact thing during the Mercury-Apollo missions. He worked for a California company (I forget the name) & my grandmother remembers driving from California to Houston with a spacesuit in the trunk of their car. She wasn't allowed to talk to any of her friends about what her dad did, bc I guess we didn't want the Soviets to know how our astronauts sh*t in space😆

[johnhuldt]

“Incontinent ballistic missile” made me chuckle.

[bogbupog]

Triple dog dare your writers to make a script regarding intelligence leaks on the War thunder discord server

[padawanmage]

I remember in 'For All Mankind' when Molly Cobb was to be the first woman on the Moon, the engineers hadn't taken into account how she could 'go'. Ed Baldwin berated them by saying, 'You're Engineers! Engineer it!"

[okankyoto]

The best comedic take on the Turd Incident is that the transcript is stamped "CONFIDENTIAL" with that crossed out. It feels so serious until you read the contents...

We almost got a second space shower- it was standard equipment on the ISS Habitat module that was almost completed but cancelled. This module would've had all the bunks, toilet (both moved elsewhere after the module was cancelled), a table for meals, exercise equipment, shower and freezer/oven allowing fresh meals like on Skylab.

[woody]

this episode might hold the record for most times simon has refered to another video in a video

[justandy]

I can't imagine having gone through all that education, college, university and getting an engineering job somewhere, you then apply to NASA. And against all the odds they accept you into their circle. And the first job they give you is to design a system so an astronaut can take a dump in zero gravity.
Not exactly what most engineers had in mind for their job in astro-engineering.

[victoriabilton]

Why have I just sat and laughed my head at a almost hour long video about a man taking a shit in space? The hardest thing is keeping a straight face and not laughing so much I miss Simon cracking up trying to keep it together but lossing his shit(punt intended) thanks for the info(and the 😂) 👍

[kevinsmith]

"incontinent balistic missile".. LOL. Genius.

[Chriseshman]

Simon you glorious bastard you!!!! 14:10 into the video I just spat my coffee and choked on it for a solid 30 seconds when you very calmly said “having a shit”. Hahhaha. 10/10

[billmullins]

Correction: "capcom" does not mean "capsule commander". It means "capsule COMMUNICATOR". The idea is that all communications between the spacecraft and mission control is through a single person (per shift) to reduce the chance of missed communication.