Friday night, while you were watching Donald Trump’s helicopter touch down at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, an Antares rocket lifted off from Wallops Island carrying a $23 million titanium toilet to the International Space Station. The new low-gravity space potty, known as the Universal Waste Management System (UWMS), sports a smaller footprint and improved efficiency, and is equally adapted to the needs of male and female astronauts. As NASA astronauts say, “you go, girl!”
More:
“Finally, a Space Toilet for Ladies,” Amanda Arnold, The Cut
“NASA’s new $30M space toilet is smaller, better smelling and more female-friendly,” CBC Radio
“State-of-the-art space toilet successfully launched into space,” Mark Kaufman, Mashable
“Antares rocket launches new astronaut toilet and more to space station for NASA,” Chelsea Gohd, Space.com
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