how do astronauts use the bathroom in space do they wear diapers or are there some sort of tubes and bags?

Answer 1

Bags for poop. A tube for men to pee into. A cup that fits into the right spot for women. The tube and the cup both have a slight vacuum suction going, so the pee goes in instead of wandering away and splashing over stuff. NASA doesn't talk about space bathrooms much because it makes spaceflight seem unglamorous and makes astronauts look unheroey. Politics demands glamor and heroes in exchange for project funding. That's why they definitely don't like this scandal in which Lisa Nowak is involved. It might cost them later, when Congress is working on the national budget.

Answer 2

According to the story that the former lady astronaut who drove from Texas to Florida, to confront the woman she perceived as her rival for a male astronaut's attention. She was wearing one of the diapers that the astronauts are issued for the space shuttle so that can go to the bathroom in them.She was said to being wearing one to avoid stopping on her cross country trip to go to the bathroom.

Answer 3

The astronauts do use a kind of diaper--but jsut for special situations like when they have to spend hours in a spacesuit. They do have specially designed bathrooms--but unless someone happens to know the details, you may have trouble finding out how theywork--NASA doesn't like to talk about that aspect of space travel! :)

Answer 4

As I recall from a paper I read - they use both. The diapers are used for take-offs and landing (and re-entering) but bags are used while orbiting.

Answer 5

pre takeoff and landing they're suited up with diapers,in space they have vacuum suction toilets and flex tube orifices for evacuation, they need to strap themselves so they dont fly off,and the waste is stored in bags and compressed for storage and disposal upon landing