Artemis II Flight Potty Problems Be Gone! ‘Space Plumber’ Details Toilet Issue
Published April 3, 2026 6:36 AM PDT
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Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch has a new name to add to her resume — “space plumber” — now that she successfully fixed the toilet issue on the NASA rocket en route to the moon.
Koch gave viewers the rundown after the Orion spacecraft’s porcelain throne — called the Universal Waste Management System — stopped working just hours after launch on Thursday. Luckily, Koch noted it was a minor issue that had to do with the toilet sitting for too long. It just needed to warm up before the crew could warm its seat!
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We told you all about the bathroom turbulence — the potty troubles forced the astronauts to hold number 1 or use a backup system until the issue was fixed, which took several hours to do.
The Orion’s toilet is the first real toilet to be used for a flyby of the moon. It works by venting urine into space, while storing solid waste in a canister that will be emptied once back on Earth April 10.
Hopefully, that was our one and only plumbing plot twist!
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