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Was there a toilet on Apollo 11?
Apollo 11 was one of nine manned Apollo missions to the moon, including six manned landings, so the question should refer to the Apollo program in general.
To urinate, astronauts rolled a condom-like item onto their penis. The condom was connected to a bag with a short hose. Spills were common, meaning the astronauts often had to deal with droplets of urine floating around the cabin.
The liquid that did get collected in the bag was held in a container that the crew emptied into outer space periodically. Once released into space, the urine droplets glowed and flashed in the sunlight like fireflies. One astronaut, asked the most beautiful sight he’d seen on the moon trip, replied, “urine dump.”
To empty their bowels, astronauts taped a plastic bag to their rear ends, but remember, nothing goes “down” in space. So they had to use their hands to push the feces into the bag. Sometimes this didn’t quite work, as on Apollo 10 when something floated around the cabin and none of the three crew members wanted to admit who was responsible. “Not mine,” one of them said.
After the deed was done, they had to knead the bag’s contents with disinfectant and store the bag in a container, conceivably for scientific investigation once they returned to Earth. By the end of a mission, the smell in the capsule was pretty gnarly, by all accounts.
Wally Schirra, a crew member of Apollo 7, had advice for the Apollo 8 crew on how to defecate in the command module: “Give yourself an hour and bring plenty of paper towels.”
Hearing this, Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders began a “low-residue” diet before the mission, determined to avoid moving his bowels on the entire one-week trip to the moon and back. I’m not sure how this worked out.
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Apollo 11 was one of nine manned Apollo missions to the moon, including six manned landings, so the question should refer to the Apollo program in general.
To urinate, astronauts rolled a condom-like item onto their penis. The condom was connected to a bag with a short hose. Spills were common, meaning the astronauts often had to deal with droplets of urine floating around the cabin.
The liquid that did get collected in the bag was held in a container that the crew emptied into outer space periodically. Once released into space, the urine droplets glowed and flashed in the sunlight like fireflies. One astronaut, asked the most beautiful sight he’d seen on the moon trip, replied, “urine dump.”
To empty their bowels, astronauts taped a plastic bag to their rear ends, but remember, nothing goes “down” in space. So they had to use their hands to push the feces into the bag. Sometimes this didn’t quite work, as on Apollo 10 when something floated around the cabin and none of the three crew members wanted to admit who was responsible. “Not mine,” one of them said.
After the deed was done, they had to knead the bag’s contents with disinfectant and store the bag in a container, conceivably for scientific investigation once they returned to Earth. By the end of a mission, the smell in the capsule was pretty gnarly, by all accounts.
Wally Schirra, a crew member of Apollo 7, had advice for the Apollo 8 crew on how to defecate in the command module: “Give yourself an hour and bring plenty of paper towels.”
Hearing this, Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders began a “low-residue” diet before the mission, determined to avoid moving his bowels on the entire one-week trip to the moon and back. I’m not sure how this worked out.
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