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【Global Network Report】The TOILET of the US "Dragon" spacecraft leaks urine, and there is a "solution"?
According to the "Russia Today" (RT) reported on the 31st, the US Space Exploration Technology Corporation (SpaceX) on the International Space Station "Dragon" spacecraft is expected to return to Earth next month, in the face of the well-known toilet failure problem, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and SpaceX company have a "way", they told the "Dragon" spacecraft that the four astronauts on the "Dragon" spacecraft should reduce the use of toilets, in addition to wearing "special underwear" in order to deal with excrement.
(Screenshot of RT report)
According to the report, NASA commercial project manager Stitch said on the 29th local time that the four astronauts on the "Dragon" spacecraft have been told that they should "restrict" the use of toilets during their return to the mission stage.
According to the US space news website "Space.com" reported on the 30th, astronauts have "other ways", that is, they also need to put a "special underwear". According to the report, this is the way the astronauts of the "Dragon" spacecraft can solve the excrement on their own during the launch, spacewalk, and return phases.
"We have other ways to get crew members to do what they need to do... At any time, they would have to put a kind of 'special underwear' under their spacesuits, and [and] the journey home would be short. Stitch said.
(SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft capsule docks with the International Space Station.) Picture from RT)
For the "method" given by NASA and SpaceX, netizens discussed it under the RT report.
Some netizens questioned. ↓
"Does wearing a diaper work?" Not necessarily, I think..."
Some netizens imitated the tone of the control center and sarcastically said: "The control center: '(Wish) good luck to excrete'. ”
Some netizens also believe that such a serious problem should be solved long ago. ↓
"Urine leaking into the fan system in zero gravity... Wait, it's not fun at all! ”
"180-day mission. Of course you can 'hold on'... [But] I would have thought they would always solve this toilet problem, whether it was through welding or whatever. ”
According to the Associated Press reported on the 26th of this month, the media quoted William Gusdenmel, vice president of the US Space Exploration Technology Corporation (SpaceX), as saying that during the first "all-civilian" space travel carried by 4 tourists on the "Dragon" spacecraft last month, a pipe in the cabin was not adhered well, resulting in urine spilling under the fan and the floor.
Recently, the same problem was found in the cabin of the Dragon spacecraft on the International Space Station. However, compared with the "all civilian" and "dragon" spacecraft, the "Dragon" spacecraft on the space station did not spill so much urine under the floor, because the astronauts only stayed in the "Dragon" spacecraft for one day before arriving at the space station, while the "all civilian" space "tour group" flew around the ground in the "Dragon" spacecraft for about 3 days. Speaking about the Dragon spacecraft, which is about to return to Earth in November, William Gusdenmel has said that when astronauts return to Earth next month, any structural damage could endanger their safety.