Now Astronauts to get a New Space Suit with a Built in Toilet

The NASA scientists are on full spree of developing a new space suit for Astronauts with a built in toilet which will allow astronauts to remain in their space suits for upto six days in case of emergencies.

These new suits, called Orion Crew Survival systems suits, will be worn by Astronauts on NASA’s Orion space craft, which will be worn by astronauts on NASAs Orion spacecraft, which will carry Humans beyond low Earth orbit.

Although the Orion will be equipped with a toilet, NASA is making contingency plans in case of emergencies, including the possibilities that the Orion capsule depressurises and the astronauts have to remain in their suits to survive.

NASA wants astronauts to survive in their suits for upto six days.It is a long time to be in such a small space under the best of conditions but then to live in a suit with all of your waste right by you for that long of a time, it could get gnarly pretty quickly, NASA engineer Kristyn Johnson told the sources.

Existing suits come equipped with diapers called maximum absorbency garments. Astronauts do not remain in their suits for more than 10 hours at a time. Once out of the space suit, astronauts use the onboard toilets.

There were no toilets in the space craft that carried humans to the moon. For the urine collection all the male crew wore catheters, with a tube at the end to collect the liquid, which was pulled into a bag attached to the outside of the suit.