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# International Space Station Toilet Tour

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## Video: International Space Station Toilet Tour

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_Published 2015-05-11. International Space Station Toilet Tour_


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## Transcript

[ MUSIC ] Hello, and welcome to the toilet of the International Space Station. [ INAUDIBLE ] and you need to go to the bathroom Restroom. You want to come to this cabin. And the first thing you wanna do is grab this piece of equipment and turn this rotary switch ninety degrees, to the open position. What that does is it turns on a fan, which creates a suction effect in this hose, so that you can use this yellow element for your number one. For number two, the principle is actually exactly the same. Suction. We have a solid waste container here, and on top of it is this seat. And the solid waste container is connected via these holes to the same fan, so that, again, the same suction effect allows you to do your number two in weight I wanna show you how it looks but, since we don't want any bad smells, to come out, we're gonna actually turn on the fan.

It's gonna be a little bit loud. There we go. Now you can lift the lid. There is This seat that sort of looks comfortable, but you don't really sit in weightlessness, so most of us actually prefer to lift this one as well, and use directly the open that goes into the bag. And in fact there is a bag in there, it looks like this. And when we are done with our business, we close the bag and we push it down into the solid waste container. And then, of course, as a courtesy to the next person, we put a new fresh bag inside. [ MUSIC ] The solid waste container That's changed what it's for which is roughly every ten days for two or three people using it.

This one for example was on start on the 61st day of this year so probably roughly around day 71 or we'll have to change again. But urine gets recycled so from. The pretty complicated hydrologic equipment that is behind here and makes the use of the toilet in space possible. The unit actually gets directly transferred to another piece of equipment, which is here in the floor, which is called UPA, urine processing Cistern assembly, which is the first step into turning urine into potable water. [ MUSIC ]

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