A Crappy Situation: Artemis II’s Very Expensive Toilet Requires Multiple In-Flight Repairs

There are billion-dollar rockets, decades of engineering, and the full weight of American ambition behind Artemis II — and then there’s the toilet. Within hours of launch, astronauts aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft ran into an issue with the capsule’s “Universal Waste Management System,” a compact, next-generation space toilet that reportedly cost more than $23 million ...