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Astronaut Peggy Whitson, who’s spent 665 days on the International Space Station, says using the toilet in space can get a little gross. Everything gets sucked away by a fan since there is no gravity. But when the toilet starts filling up, you have to push the poop down with your hand! That’s pretty disgusting.
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Astronauts on the International Space Station have a special assignment: reading to kids, from space! Story Time from Space is a program where carefully chosen books rocket up to the Space Station. Then an astronaut reads the book to kids back on Earth! You can watch on the Story Time from Space website.
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NASA is working on a new spacesuit design that has a built-in toilet! The next spacecraft to carry humans, Orion, will have a toilet, but NASA wants astronauts to be able to survive in the suit for up to six days in case of emergency. For shorter missions, astronauts just wear diapers.
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Do you want to grow up to be an astronaut? Wait until you hear what they might have to eat! Scientists are researching ways to turn astronaut poop back into food using microbes. Ready-made food for a long journey takes up too much space. Deep space exploration will depend on recycling human waste!
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Will you be traveling over the holidays? So are the astronauts who blasted off yesterday! The Soyuz capsule launched from Kazakhstan carrying Anton Shkaplerov from Russia, Norishige Kanai from Japan and Scott Tingle from the United States. They are headed for the International Space Station orbiting 240 miles above Earth.
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The new Star Wars movie is a big deal for fans, but what if you were stuck in space and couldn’t go see it? NASA is working on it! Astronauts on the International Space Station will soon get to watch The Last Jedi while orbiting 250 miles above Earth.
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