The space urinals that went around the Moon on Artemis II

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45 Comments

  1. astro_pettit on

    The Collapsable Contingency Urinal (CCU), used on Artemis 2 after a toilet malfunction. Essentially an open container (reusable, sealable, and drainable) that controls the urine-air interface using capillary forces. When you are in cislunar space with a broken toilet, you need contingencies and the CCU replaces the need for about 25 pounds of diapers.

  2. just imagine drinking so much Gatorade Zero in zero g that you have to use the zero g urinal until your bladder has zero, g.

  3. SerHodorTheThrall on

    If this is supposed to be the Female CCU, why does it say PP on it 🤔

    This is really cool though. Does anyone know what the CO2 nozzle is for?

  4. I’ll be interested to hear the engineering reason behind the space clog! And how it will be remedied for Artemis III & IV!

  5. If we can get to a point where we are sending dozens of people into space at a time, it might be more economical to just send Bear Grylls with them.

  6. Admiral_Janovsky on

    For the first second after seeing the picture i thought:

    That’s a lot of thermal paste. Then i continued to read the title.

  7. QuitCallingNewsrooms on

    So uhhhh… if you can’t look at that and figure out how to use it, does that mean you’re not smart enough to go to space?

  8. JulesInvader on

    I like the spacey hexagon pattern. Because hexagons are bestagons. It doesn’t look like a real hexagonal material structure?

  9. Cockyidiot1977 on

    These stalls dont somehow seal off the…bowl from the rest of the pod and eject everything into space?

    Thats wht I always thought happened

  10. IssueEmbarrassed8103 on

    Does the “female” urinal mean it takes the male member, or how does this work?

  11. SuperPangolin793 on

    But when I pee in a bottle and put it on my boss’s desk, I get escorted out of the building.

    Double standards are real, people

  12. It would’ve been funny if they made it from polypropylene instead of polyphenylene ether

  13. AnonymousEngineer_ on

    I know it’s NASA, and it’s basically full of engineers and scientists, but why does this thing have a user manual with more pages than an average passenger car? 

  14. LickinThighs2 on

    Space Truck’n but instead of throwin’ your piss bottles at drivers who piss you off, you’re sling’n these bad boys out of your ship, and they are obliterating alien vessels