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Old 04-05-2004 | 09:44 PM
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No, in fact urine was handled the same as on Gemini. You put a prophylactic like device on your weenie. It had a tube on the end and it channeled the moon explorer's pee into a reservoir or out into the void (I forget which). But for crap, that was awful. They had a paper device shaped like a top hat with contact paper on the brim. You stuck the brim to your a s s and crapped. The whole inside was contact paper too so the turd stuck to the walls rather than become a trans lunar Baby Ruth! Then you cleaned up, threw in a biocide tablet and folded the two sides of the brim together to seal it. Then came the worst part! You had to kneed it around with your hands to fully mix the biocide with the crap! One early Apollo astronaut (I think it was Wally Schirra) once told the mission planners to leave an hour in the schedule for each guy for each crap. He said that it really took that long to do all of that in zero G, there was no way to get the job done any faster! [&o]