Artemis II crew preps for lunar orbit – and Orion’s cosmic commode

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Four astronauts are about to embark on a historic voyage that will take them around the moon in a spacecraft about the size of a large camper van.

During the Artemis II mission, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and the Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen, will spend 10 days inside the Orion capsule after being blasted to space by the SLS rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, hopefully next week.

As many astronauts have noted over the years, the question they’re asked more than any other is: “How do astronauts use the bathroom in microgravity conditions?” This most often applies to the International Space Station (ISS), where crews usually stay for around six months before returning to Earth.

But many folks are also curious about how the four Artemis II astronauts will deal with basic bodily needs while traveling farther from Earth than any

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