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  • very_well_lost@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Fun fact!

    One of those “fecal specimens” escaped containment during the Apollo 10 lunar flyby and floated around the crew module. The event would forever be immortalized in the mission’s radio transcripts:

    Cernan: “Where did that come from?”

    Stafford: “Get me a napkin quick. There’s a turd floating through the air.”

    Young: “I didn’t do it. It ain’t one of mine.”

    Cernan: “I don’t think it’s one of mine.”

    Stafford: “Mine was a little more sticky than that. Throw that away.”

    Young: “God Almighty”

  • IWW4@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    Did the video tell you about the diet the Astronauts had to eat prior to and while on the mission?

    The engineering that NASA did and still does really is amazing.

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      3 months ago

      I’d never considered this, growing up I was always taught ‘squeeze pouch’ or toothpaste tube-food type stuff.

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        3 months ago

        It was that, it was just a very low fiber diet so they pooped a lot less.

  • RazzleDazzle@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 months ago

    For anyone interested in more astronaut poop stories she other similar weird stuff I can highly recommend “packing for Mars” by Mary Roach.

    • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars

      Then poop in a bag out there by Jupiter and Mars

      In other words, please be true

      In other words, massage your poo.

  • mkwt@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Some of those bags are still on the moon today, in the lockers on the descent stages where they were left.

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      3 months ago

      If the aliens stop by the moon on their way to Earth, there is no way they would want to visit us.