“Go for toilet”: Artemis II’s out-of-this-world plumbing problem #SciFriEducate @scifri
“Go for toilet”: Artemis II’s out-of-this-world plumbing problem #SciFriEducate @scifri
Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The Artemis II mission successfully launched on April 1, 2026, for a 10-day adventure, slingshotting around the moon and back. But almost as soon as the Orion spacecraft left the launchpad, the astronauts encountered a problem with an important piece of equipment: the toilet.
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