![]() Kalpana Chawla, one of seven who died on board Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003, will rendezvous with the ISS three days after launch, and remain attached until December. The capsule, commemoratively named the S.S. This marks the company’s 14th resupply mission to the ISS, and second heaviest to date. The UWMS will among more than 7,600 pounds of hardware, supplies and science research on board Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus capsule. The new space toilet will launch as part of a resupply mission slated to lift off on board a Northrop Grumman Antares rocket from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore at 9:38 p.m. “Everyone positions themselves differently while ‘going,’ and consistent astronaut feedback indicated that the traditional thigh straps were a hassle.” “The UWMS includes foot restraints and handholds for astronauts to keep themselves from floating away,” according to a NASA press release. The new system also adjusts how astronauts stay in place. ![]() The version to be used on the Orion for the 10-day mission to orbit the moon, currently targeting a 2023 launch, will not use the UWMS’s recycling aspect, but just store everything for disposal after the mission completion. While water is not currently extracted from the fecal matter produced in space, NASA has said that could be in the works for the future. NASA’s goal is to achieve 98% recycling rates before those missions take place. The use of the UWMS on the space station is a testing ground for future long-distance missions, like those planned for Mars, that could be two-year missions with humans on board. One side will hold the UWMS, the other a Waste Hygiene Compartment. For privacy, the new toilet on the ISS will be located inside of this dual-stall area already in place.
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