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Old October 4th 20, 07:21 AM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
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Default NASA launches new $23 million space toilet to ISS. It should arrive Monday - space toilet2.jpg ...

https://www.cnet.com/news/nasa-launc...arrive-monday/

The loo better accommodates female astronauts with a tilted seat.

A recently designed space toilet that better accommodates women is headed to the
International Space Station. The new loo was packed inside a cargo ship that
successfully blasted off Friday evening at 6:16 p.m. PT from NASA's Wallops
Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia. The astronauts will give the toilet
a test run for the next few months.

Weighing almost 100 pounds (45 kilograms) and measuring 28 inches (71
centimeters) tall, the new toilet is about half as big as the two Russian-built
toilets already in use at the ISS. This new toilet is 65% smaller and almost
half as light than current ISS toilets in use.



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