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To: Grainne who wrote (3716)	2/23/1998 11:55:00 AM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) of 4006

Hmmm. About Poop in Space. Earlier missions, they just fed the astronauts low-residue (read Max Constipation) foods and hoped the crew would go a week or so without any insuperable urges. In any event, US spaceguys wore diapers and used a "Texas catheter" (sorta a condom with a straw) for liquid wastes. Valentina Tereshkova was catheterized. Musta been sore for a month. Shuttle pilots have a whiz-bang space john. Now there's a $5000 toilet seat that's cheap at the price. It apparently (I'm not too sure about this) uses a combination of suction and vortex action to round'em up and head'em out. I remember the Apollo spacecraft had a regular schedule of venting its toilet contents into space. I believe the astronauts referred to the ensuing spray of freezing piddle surrounding their ship as "the constellation Urion".

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