NASA launches new space suit with attached toilet

A long-term waste disposal system is new to NASA's upcoming space suit. In other words, a bathroom built into the outfit that will be worn by astronauts!

This new system integrates what NASA has been calling the Orion Crew Survival System Suits (OCSSS), a type of clothing that aims to be virtually self-reliant in extreme situations. In it, astronauts must be able to feed, urinate and also defecate without changing clothes.

It is a highly durable security system, prepared for cases where the astronaut is required to keep on the suit to survive - such as depressurization situations, for example.

OCSSS suits are being designed by NASA engineers especially for the crew of the Orion aircraft, a ship large and sturdy enough to come and go from the moon. To achieve the goal of up to six days of undressing, Clothing developers need to think of a way to neutralize odors, but they also deal with the issue of decomposing waste - after all, who wants to stay six days in the same clothes, with the toilet attached to their backs, right?

The bathroom issue is an old NASA drama. In the first aircraft since the Apollo project, this issue had been debated. In the early voyages out of Earth's orbit, astronauts used very similar diaper systems to collect feces, and for urine, the costumes had a system that collected the liquid through a condom-like accessory.

In the case of women, when they were included in the space agency program they used a diaper-like absorption system, since a collection accessory would not work the same way with the female physiological structure.

Remember that in space liquids do not drain as they do on Earth. They tend to remain connected to the region that expelled them, forming small bubbles, which should not be an unpleasant sensation!

Besides the discomfort, there is the issue of bacterial proliferation. In addition to this, scientists who are designing women's space suits also need to consider the issue of different female anatomies, pubic hair, and menstrual periods.

The most curious, however, is that NASA is not the first to think about these technologies to urinate without going to the toilet, in fact.

OCSSS design engineers are considering a number of existing technologies and drawing on solutions designed for use by campers and airplane pilots, for example.

Now wait and see what they are coming up with and let this new technology follow the line of NASA's famous pillows and be made available to the rest of the population! It would be the dream of those who are always running and do not have time to go to the bathroom!

NASA launches new space suit with attached bathroom via TecMundo