NASA Lunar Loo toilet design challenge - image

[Jon]

NASA is offering $35,000 in cash to the winners of a design for a toilet that will work in both microgravity and lunar gravity, for use on the 2024 Artemis moon landing mission.

Artemis is NASA’s program to land the first woman and the next man on the Moon by 2024. Humanity is going back to the Moon to establish a presence that will enable eventual crewed journeys to Mars. As we prepare for our return to the Moon, innumerable activities to equip, shelter, and otherwise support future astronauts are underway. These astronauts will be eating and drinking, and subsequently urinating and defecating in microgravity and lunar gravity. While astronauts are in the cabin and out of their spacesuits, they will need a toilet that has all the same capabilities as ones here on Earth.

More:

https://www.herox.com/LunarLoo
https://www.nasa.gov/lunar-loo-challenge

Previously:

NASA SR-71A testing a linear aerospike - photo
NASA KRUSTY nuclear reactor - photo
NASA X-4 Bantam plane that can be broken in two - photo
NASA chainmail tire - GIF
Redesigned NASA door after Apollo 1 fire - GIF
NASA technology to fold airplane wings in flight - video
1960s NASA before PowerPoint and using ladders to do math - photos
NASA water deluge rocket launch system - GIF
NASA fastener design manual
NASA technical standard document: Crimping, Interconnecting Cables, Harnesses, Wiring
NASA Tire Assault Vehicle (TAV), made from a German World War II tank model

[jdurand]

Probably still wind up with zipper top bags with tape strips on them. Simple, works, works, works.