How do astronauts pee and poop in space?

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asked Mar 16, 2020 in Science by xzeppus77 (410 points)
How do astronauts pee and poop in space?

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answered Mar 16, 2020 by Adf289 (58,200 points)
Astronauts do have toilets in space but the toilets that astronauts use in the spaceship work differently than the toilets we have here on earth.

An astronaut poops into a little plate sized toilet hole and a vacuum sucks the poop away and the pee goes into a separate container that also gets sucked away.

So they do have toilets in space.

Basically astronauts in space can urinate into a long tube with a vacuum system that sucks away the waste or they can sit down on a special spaceship toilet.

The human waste then gets sent out into space and is basically burnt up in the earths atmosphere.

Astronauts can sometimes also wear a diaper while in space and although the space people do not call it a diaper it really is.

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