If this is the worst problem they have, I think we'll all still call the mission a resounding success
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You mean assuming they are not cooked on re-entry because no one double checked the AI's math?
"They're OK," he said of the astronauts. "They trained to manage through the situation."
I'd still like to know how training not being able to pee anywhere goes about. Probably each astronaut has an extra container for exactly this purpose?
Actually, I recall reading elsewhere that they would pee in pouches if the toilet failed, and being the pouches back with them, just like the Apollo astronauts did.
They have backup waste collection methods. It's a lot less pleasant, is all.
I'm sure they brought diapers just in case this exact thing happened. Also,
Until the Orion capsule's bathroom is fixed, mission control has instructed the astronauts to break out more of the backup urine collection bags.
It's not like they can't pee ever
What about pooping?
Just turn the bags around.
Literally in the article:
Engineers suspect ice may be blocking the line that is preventing urine from completely flushing overboard. The toilet is still open for No. 2 business.
Fuck me. I've been trained to expect anything bad regarding ice to be that one thing that isn't the issue here. Still, fuck ice.
un-Holy shit!!!
They should get Houston to instruct the astronauts to translate the toilet handle in a high frequency oscillatory movement of 120Hz.