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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- SIAIR_230108_03.JPG: Lots of charging stations including in the arm rests.
- SIAIR_230108_27.JPG: Tinkle Time
In space, without the familiar pull of gravity, astronauts don't get the urge to urinate -- so bathroom breaks are scheduled throughout the day.
- SIAIR_230108_32.JPG: Evacuation Station
International Space Station (ISS) Toilet
Urine Collection Device
This vacuum tube collects urine, which is recycled. Each astronaut has their own funnel.
Toilet Training
The port of entry is small for solid waste; astronauts have to train on Earth with a camera in order to align themselves for a successful deposit.
Recycling Water Waste
Once urine is collected, it goes through an eight-day process in which 80% is purified into safe drinking water. This recycling system accounts for 93% of the water abroad the ISS.
Vacuum Chamber
So solid waste does not float away, a vacuum is used to move it away from the astronaut and into a small bag.
Waste Storage Drawer
Every week or so, astronauts swap a full container for an empty one. All ISS waste (bathroom and otherwise) leaves on expendable cargo spacecraft that burn up in Earth's atmosphere.
Testing a New Toilet
Engineers designed a new space toilet -- the Universal Waste Management System, which was launched to the ISS in 2020 -- to be easier for everyone to use. It was also 65% smaller and 40% lighter than the original ISS toilet.
- SIAIR_230108_35.JPG: Mirror, Mirror on the Wrist
Because large helmets prevent astronauts from looking down at the spacesuit controls on their chests, they wear a small wrist mirror. Control settings are written backwards to be readable when using the mirror.
- SIAIR_230108_38.JPG: No Faucet, No Spitting
Astronauts brush their teeth with special, edible toothpaste that they can swallow (don't try this at home!) since they don't have running water or anywhere to spit inside a spacecraft.
- SIAIR_230108_49.JPG: Astronauts Go Less
NASA prescribes a low-fiber diet, called "low residue," to reduce the frequency and volume of an astronaut's solid waste.
- SIAIR_230108_59.JPG: Lunar-themed cookies in the cafeteria
- SIAIR_230630_39.JPG: Stray cat
- SIAIR_230730_34.JPG: This is where the little observatory had been before the renovation.
- SIAIR_231123_02.JPG: This used to be where the add-on section was with the McDonald's restaurant.
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I still have them though. If you want me to email them to you, please send an email to guthrie.bruce@gmail.com
and I can email them to you, or, depending on the number of images, just repost the page again will the full-sized images.
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