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How Artemis II astronauts managed a toilet malfunction mid-mission Source: CBS Mornings
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00:00What did you do when the toilet broke? Did you just let it fly around?
00:05We didn't let it, but sometimes it did.
00:09Well, the toilet is a very important piece of equipment in any spaceship.
00:14And we had two different things. At first, the toilet, when we first turned it on,
00:18the fan that actually keeps everything going where it needs to go didn't quite turn on.
00:22So we tried again, we gave it some time, and we got that working.
00:25But then you have to get rid of everything that you output.
00:30And we do that by venting it into space, and that actually clogged up.
00:35So we had a different way of going to the bathroom, and we didn't need to use a secondary vent.
00:41Everything on the spaceship usually has a backup system.
00:44So luckily, the engineers planned for that, and we used our backup system when we got through it.
00:49It wasn't as easy as our fancy good toilet, but we made do.
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