And Here On Sunday, The Crew Has Reported An “Electrical / Burning” Smell — From The Artemis/Orion Loo… Yikes!

Yup — the shake-out / trouble-shooting… continues.

Later tonight, the team will get a green light to stop going in the old fashioned “bags” — and start using the mini version of the ISS tiolet onboard, again. But this may be the main narrative of the outward journey to the Moon — all the ways they had to get creative, to relieve themselves:

…A burning smell from the toilet is not something you’d want to experience on Earth, so when it happened to NASA’s Artemis 2 astronauts on the way to the moon — well, you can bet Mission Control was listening.

Late Friday (April 3), as NASA’s Artemis 2 mission passed the halfway mark to the moon, the four astronauts on board reported a burning smell coming from their novel Orion space toilet.

“For me, it was some sort of burning odor, and then it was definitely in the hygiene bay,” said Artemis 2 mission specialist Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency. “And when I opened up the hygiene bay, the rest of the crew could smell it pretty much immediately….”

And again, accept my apologies for the immature gif. But I couldn’t resist. Onward.

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