NASA sends $23 million female-friendly 'space toilet' to International Space Station

NASA has successfully launched a craft with nearly 8,000 pounds of scientific investigations, techlogy demonstrations, commercial products along with cargo that includes research on cancer treatments and a “new toilet”. A rthrop Grumman Cygnus resupply craft blasted off from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia at 9:16 PM EDT on Friday, October 2. It is scheduled to reach International Station (ISS) around 5:20 AM EDT on Monday, October 5. 

Expected to remain at ISS until mid-December,   toilet for astronauts on  Cygnus cargo ship is an up-gration from current facility in . new female-friendly dition would help organisation in preparing for its future missions to Mars and Moon and reportedly costs $23 million.

Claiming smaller footprints of Universal Manment System (UWMS), new toilet will support a possible increase in number of crew members aboard ISS. UWMS demonstrates a compact toilet and urine transfer system that furr makes waste manment and stor automated. 

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New crop, cancer treatments to reach ISS

In same mission, NASA has also launched a set of a new crop of vegetables to station. While different s of lettuces and greens are alrey aboard ISS, w rishes will also be ded to mix. By cultivation of fresh seeds, researchers will t only be able to see how different soil and light impact growth but also optimize plants in . 

Apart from an upgre on ‘ sal’, NASA has also sent targetted cancer treatments to to test m in microgravity. drugs that have been included for this test are ‘onco-selective’, that is, y can differentiate between cancer cells and healthy cells. 

NASA said, “Researchers expect any drugs that also demonstrate this trait in microgravity could make good candidates for safer, more effective, and affordable medicines to treat leukemia and or cancers. This could improve survival rates for thousands of people every year.”

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