Friday, April 03, 2026

To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before

There are currently ten toilets in space:
  • International Space Station: 4
  • Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1
  • Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1
  • Tiangong Space Station: 2
  • Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1
  • Artemis II on way around Moon: 1
This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit, and the toilet on Artemis II will venture further from earth than any crapper in history. It had a spot of trouble, but the crew and Mission Control successfully fixed it.

They also had trouble with the capsule's computers running two instances of Microsoft Outlook. A lot of talk is made of NASA's SLS rocket using Shuttle-era solid rocket boosters, but it's also worth noting that Microsoft Outlook was first released 25 years after the final Apollo moon mission… …and 29 years before Artemis II.

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