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In responding to followers asking about the mission, Musk tweeted Monday night that the Inspiration4 crew had some difficulties with the toilet and promised upgrades for future missions.
“An alarm went off on SpaceX’s all-tourist space flight. The problem was the toilet” https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/25/tech/spacex-toilet-waste-management-system-scn/index.html
Article includes “Excreta in space, a history”
“…During the 1969 Apollo 10 mission — the one that saw Thomas Stafford, John Young and Eugene Cernan circumnavigate the moon — Stafford reported back to mission control on Day Six of the mission that a piece of waste was floating through the cabin, according to once-confidential government documents. Link: https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a410/AS10_CM.PDF
“Give me a napkin, quick,” Stafford is recorded as saying a few minutes before Cernan spots another one: “Here’s another goddamn turd.” [See also “The floating turd mystery that still haunts NASA” https://www.vox.com/2015/5/26/8646675/apollo-10-turd-poop ]
The feces collection process at the time, a NASA report later revealed, was an “extremely basic” plastic bag that was “taped to the buttocks.” Link: https://history.nasa.gov/SP-368/s6ch2.htm
“The fecal bag system was marginally functional and was described as very ‘distasteful’ by the crew,” an official NASA report from 2007 later revealed. “The bags provided no odor control in the small capsule and the odor was prominent.” Link: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20150018580/downloads/20150018580.pdf