00:00So, this would be the floor of the Orion Capsule.
00:03We have it set up here like this so that we can practice in gravity.
00:07But this would be the door.
00:09So, if you were looking at the toilet from inside the capsule,
00:14this would be the floor.
00:15You would float over to it, open up this hinging door, and float on in.
00:25So, here you can see the toilet.
00:28And there's enough room for you to float in here and close the door.
00:32You have a urine hose, so this is where you collect all your urine.
00:36And then this is just like a toilet seat, and this is where the solid waste is collected.
00:41The feces get sucked down into the bottom, into a bag.
00:45You close that off, and you squish it down into the bottom into the canister.
00:51During the mission, we'll have to change out that solid waste canister a few times,
00:56and all of that comes back to Earth with us.
00:58As far as the urine goes, it gets collected.
01:01And a few times a day, we vent that urine to space.
01:07We get to give ourselves a mission that we can hold onto to say,
01:11hey, look at what we did for the rest of our lives.
01:15You know, we call amazing things.
01:16And I'm the space plumber.
01:17I'm proud to call myself the space plumber.
01:20I like to say that it is probably the most important piece of equipment on board.
01:25So, we were all breathing a sigh of relief when it turned out to be just fine.
01:29It was just an issue, I think, of sitting for a long time and needing a little time to warm
01:33up,
01:33a priming issue.
01:34But we did originally think that there could have been potentially something fouling up the motor.
01:40And luckily, we are all systems go.
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