If you ever find yourself aboard a spaceship exploring the profound mysteries of the universe and you have the sudden urge to poop — former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino has some insights for you. “It ...

NASA Johnson Space Center, in partnership with NASA Tournament Lab and online crowdsourcing platform HeroX, today announced three winners of the widely publicized Space Poop Challenge. he global ...

NASA has partnered with the crowdsourcing platform HeroX in its search for the next lunar toilet. Do your, uh, duty and design the next toilet that astronauts will use on the moon. The prize for ...

When the crew of The Ark (streaming now on Peacock) stepped into their interstellar spacecraft, it was with the knowledge that they would never see the Earth again. The trip to Proxima centauri was ...

With Project Artemis, NASA is planning to put astronauts back to the moon by 2024. Parts of the trip will be groundbreaking, including having the first woman ever step foot on the lunar surface. Other ...

NASA is asking for everyone's help in coming up with new ways they can handle needs the human beings who are astronauts have in terms of waste. They're calling in 'The Poop Challenge' and there's a ...

There are no toilets in space, so astronauts must instead wear a fancy space diaper when they need to go #2. Of all the things we’d like to know about outer space - Is there life on other planets? How ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

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