Toilet drains into two different containers for each type of waste. The urine holding tank periodically vents overboard. The feces canisters are stored and returned to earth.
The ongoing problem is that the urine holding tank is not venting into space very well when they open the valve. The toilet drains both waste types into their containers ok. But since the urine holding tank is about the size of an office trash can, it can fill up very fast.
Not pictured: all the bags of pee
And that’s just cause one of them really likes pee.
I heard they were using an actual toilet this time? Which I would assume eliminates the need for bags of pee but I haven’t really looked into it.
The toilet is malfunctioning, but only for liquid waste, somehow
Toilet drains into two different containers for each type of waste. The urine holding tank periodically vents overboard. The feces canisters are stored and returned to earth.
The ongoing problem is that the urine holding tank is not venting into space very well when they open the valve. The toilet drains both waste types into their containers ok. But since the urine holding tank is about the size of an office trash can, it can fill up very fast.
Bummer. Hope fully they have backup bags.
The morning before the moon flyby they were informed by Houston that the shitter’s full and they have one pee left in the budget.