Spacex and NASA offered to American astronauts that are now on the ISS and soon have to return to Earth, study “other ways to remove fluids from the body” After the incident with the toilet Crew Dragon spacecraft during the previous fully civilian flight. This is reported by RT with reference to the statement of the manager of the program of commercial crews NASA Steve Stych.
Astronauts NASA Shane Kimbrou and Megan MacArthur, as well as Akikhiko Hoshide from the Japanese Aerospace Research Agency and Thomas Sand from the European Space Agency, which went to the ISS on September 16 as part of the Mission Crew 2, offered to reduce the use of the toilet during the descent from the orbit provided in the capsule.
“We have other tools that allow the crew to perform the necessary functions … Special linings are sewn into the astronauts, and the flight goes long,” she explained.
The toilet malfunction on the spacecraft was found during the Inspiration4 historical mission, during which the American billionaire Jared Aizekman and three space tourists spent three days in orbit inside the RESILIENCE ship. Upon returning the equipment, they found that during the flight in the tank for waste, the part was somehow detail disconnected, as a result of which urine leaked into the ventilation system.
According to Vice President Spacex William Gersheneer, this problem was corrected on the RESILIENCE and Endurance ships, which are located on earth, but the ship that docked to the ISS is still faulty.
Crew 2 will return to Earth at the beginning of November after the crew Crew 3. It has previously known that one of the astronauts, a member of the new SPACEX mission, the German Maurer (Matthias Maurer) began to arrange on International Space Station Party. The celebration will be devoted to several events: March 18, Maurer will celebrate the 52nd birthday, on this day the Russian Soyuz Ship will arrive on the ISS, and one of the American astronauts will put a record for staying in orbit.