00:00Right now, we see no flow at all.
00:03You are no go for toilet, and we'd like you to use CCUs overnight.
00:11The space toilet on board the Orion spacecraft is called the Universal Waste Management System.
00:18Urine is stored in a tank and then vented overboard each day by the crew,
00:23and it does sound like there was a bit of an issue there.
00:35It's kind of a complex engineering issue when you expose a liquid to vacuum.
00:42It's a pretty chaotic environment, and there's a lot of theory and textbook work done when you assume it's pure
00:49water,
00:49but when you introduce the variable of it being wastewater,
00:52there's other complex phenomena that we don't quite yet understand that are factoring into that vent line.
00:57We see the blizzard. Cool.
00:59This is a good opportunity to learn now on a shorter mission.
01:02If changes are needed to be made to the spacecraft, we have opportunities before Artemis 3 to make those changes.
01:08I like to say that it is probably the most important piece of equipment on board.
01:12I like to say that it is probably the most important piece of equipment on board.
01:14I like to say that it is probably the most important piece of equipment on board.
01:15I like to say that it is probably the most important piece of equipment on board.
01:16I like to say that it is probably the most important piece of equipment on board.
01:17I like to say that it is probably the most important piece of equipment on board.
01:17I like to say that it is probably the most important piece of equipment on board.
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