You probably haven’t ever thought about it, but pooping in space can be pretty hard. There’s no gravity, so if astronauts would use a normal toilet, all fluids and semi-fluids your body produces would be sent flying across the spacecraft. That’s why space toilets work with a suction system to keep things clean — but that’s not enough for NASA. The space agency has worked together with crowdsourcing platform HeroX to launch the Space Poop challenge, which is an open call for anyone to create a better solution for space pooping than currently available. Specifically, NASA wants to improve the…
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