Astronauts will use their feces as a radiation shield on 2018 mission to Mars
The Inspiration Mars Foundation’s audacious plan for a primarily private-funded, manned ship to Mars has more than a few challenges to overcome before its 2018 launch date, and it turns out the solution to one problem — dangerous cosmic rays — comes in the form of feces. The current plan calls for the two astronauts aboard the 1166-cubic-foot spacecraft to defecate into bags which would be used to line the walls of the ship (after extracting as much water as possible from the waste for reuse).a
childhood desire to be an astronaut suddenly diminished
What’s the point of going into space if you have to live in walls made of your poo and drink water (extracted from your poo)
I think I’ll stay on Earth D:
Why does the artist’s rendition
Look like a vibrator
