NASA launches new $23 million space toilet to ISS. It should arrive Monday
A recently designed space toilet that better accommodates women is headed to the International Space Station. The new loo was packed inside a cargo ship that successfully blasted off Friday evening at 6:16 p.m. PT from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia. The astronauts will give the toilet a test run for the next few months.
Weighing almost 100 pounds (45 kilograms) and measuring 28 inches (71 centimeters) tall, the new toilet is about half as big as the two Russian-built toilets already in use at the ISS. This new toilet is 65% smaller and almost half as light than current ISS toilets in use.
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