Peeing in Space

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7281395/Science-fiction-writer-pens-thread-female-astronauts-URINATE.html

'Let's talk about peeing in space!' Science fiction writer enthralls Twitter with a 'hilarious' and 'informative' thread about how male and female astronauts go to the BATHROOM

• Mary Robinette Kowal, 50, from Nashville, Tennessee, wrote the funny and informative thread on Friday, July 19
• The post came after she received criticism for a New York Times article she wrote, in which she wrote: 'The Apollo program was designed by men, for men'
• She said several people said the reason women once couldn't go into space was because of a lack of 'technology for them to pee in space
• In the thread, she aimed to explain that urinating in space has always been difficult for everyone, rather than just women 
• 'The reason women didn't go into space had nothing to do with lacking the technology to pee,' she wrote in the now viral Twitter thread  
• https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7281395/Science-fiction-writer-pens-thread-female-astronauts-URINATE.html

[speedy3471 10,655]

Iam quite positive I won't experience what it's like to piss in outer space lol

[glad1 2,832]

I kinda am looking forward to it. I'm told I have the right stuff!

[gldenwetgoose 21,495]

It's very tame, but the concept is included in the movie Apollo 13 where Tom Hanks (I think from memory) is shown completion his piss, jettisoning it and a spray of yellow droplets is seen vaporising into the darkness. Again from memory I think it's referred to as the Constellation Urine or something similar.

Without having read the article, surely catheterising of lady astronauts would have been simple - amongst all the other health monitoring wires etc it wouldn't be a big deal.

Edited July 25, 2019 by gldenwetgoose