DEEP DIVE INTO SPACE TOILETS
Urine and fecal collection on the first US manned spacecraft
The first two U.S. manned Mercury flights (Mercury-3: Alan Shepard, May 5, 1961; Mercury-4: Virgil Grissom, July 21, 1961) were short suborbital missions (15–16 minutes) with no urine or feces collection syst...
Apr 30, 2026