NASA delays Artemis II launch until Mar.
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“The Orion Waste Management System (WMS) features a full commode suitable for short to mid-length duration missions, offering both privacy and comfortable means for the astronauts to use the bathroom. It employs a small urine tank that is vented to space and replaceable canisters for solid waste storage,” a technical paper on Orion states.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced the first crewed mission of the Artemis II will fly around the moon after an
Almost as tall as a football field, NASA's Space Launch System rocket and capsule stack traveled slowly—just under one mile per hour—out to the Artemis II launchpad, its temporary home at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida,
NASA is working to take astronauts farther from Earth than any humans have ever gone, but the ambitious and costly moonshot has been plagued by delays.
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Artemis 2 moon suits ready to make history | Space photo of the day for Jan. 30, 2026
Time to suit up!