Anonymousabout 5 hours ago
The Artemis II crew experienced two separate toilet malfunctions within the first four days of NASA's first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years — a fan jam on Day 1 and frozen urine in a vent line on Day 3 — along with an unexplained burning smell that ground teams have been unable to identify. The incidents, while not mission-threatening, expose a troubled testing history for the Collins Aerospace-built Universal Waste Management System and raise questions about NASA's readiness to support longer deep-space missions with waste management hardware that has never been fully validated outside low Earth orbit.