Astronauts in diapers in Elon Musk’s Dragon capsule due to damage to the toilet

Four astronauts in her Dragon capsule SpaceX of Elon Musk from April should use diapers as a damage to toilet the board does not allow them to use it. This was announced by Steve Stich, head of the NASA crew program, last Friday.

According to CNN, SpaceX first discovered a problem with the spacecraft’s toilet last month while inspecting another Dragon capsule. The company found that a tube used to pass urine into a storage tank came off, causing urine to leak to the floor of the capsule. In fact, this is a problem that has affected all three spacecraft operated by the company.

It is unknown how long they will stay in the capsule with a non-functional toilet

NASA did not say how long the four astronauts – NASA’s Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, the European Space Agency’s French astronaut Thomas Pesquet and Japan’s Akihiko Hoshide – would be in the Crew Dragon capsule with a non-functional toilet. .

So far, only two Crew Dragon spacecraft have returned from the ISS with people on board and the first of these voyages lasted 19 hours, while the second only six.

The Dragon toilet problem was first identified during SpaceX’s Inspiration 4 mission in September, where four people performed the first tourist mission in space, where they were on orbit for three days.

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