Do Shenjiu astronauts need to take off their spacesuits when they go to the toilet?

Updated on Toilets 2024-06-03
3 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-01-24

    There is no need to urinate and defecate in the microgravity environment of space, which is indeed a more troublesome and complicated thing. If the "space toilet" is not well designed, the pulled out urine and urine will float out of the toilet due to microgravity and fly everywhere in the cockpit, which will become a disaster. The first step for astronauts to go to the toilet is to secure themselves, and the most important thing is to make the toilet completely sealed inside and outside.

    Space toilets "are not pumped, but pumped." If the inside and outside of the toilet are not completely sealed, and the air flow cannot carry away the stool, the toilet will not work properly. The toilet bowl is equipped with a centrifugal pump, and when the centrifugal pump is turned on, the fluttering of the air allows the stool to be sucked into the stool collector at the bottom of the toilet.

    There is a poop bag inside the stool collector. The stool is all packed into a bag after each use, so no odor comes out.

    Urine is collected in a special funnel. A water pump is installed under the funnel to collect the urine into the urinal. Urinal barrels are regularly discharged into space. The stool in the poop bag is compressed and finally brought back to the surface.

  2. Anonymous users2024-01-23

    You don't need to wear a spacesuit to enter the capsule. Wear a spacesuit only when you are out of the warehouse. Naturally, there is no problem of taking off a spacesuit when going to the toilet in a space capsule.

  3. Anonymous users2024-01-22

    The spacesuit is definitely diapers attached

    In fact, if you use a normal toilet in a gravity-free state, you will see yellow absolutely spherical droplets of water flying all over the sky

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