Artemis II space nappies

[oznl]

Like many nerds with too much time on their hands, I’ve wasted a lot of time (and internet bandwidth) lately watching the Artemis II mission.

The continual reliability issues of the ship’s toilet have been amusing (I mean who built this thing?  British Leyland?) but during one of the many loss-of-signal events, I was watching YouTube videos on various technologies.

One of these was the space suit (now called the Orion Crew Survival System).  The tour featured the inevitable space-nappy.  Although it wasn’t specifically called out in the video, it was there loud-and-proud on display and appears to be some kind of Abena.

The thing is that on the event of unplanned cabin depressurisation (a leak), the survival plan for the astronauts is that they don their OCSS suits whereupon they can stay in them to escape death-by-vacuum for the balance of the voyage.

There are ports to allow them to take on board food and drink but nothing that I could see that would work for a nappy changes.

They can survive in these suits for up to 6 days (enough to get home).

6 days… Yeesh…  I’d had to be helping them out of THAT space suit on day #7.  It would be better than being dead I suppose.  Still, they could have at least shouted them a half-decent nappy: Rearz Little Mermaid or something…

Video is here.  Zero ABDL content but still interesting

 

[Goerge]

Them Abena cloth backed nappies are garbage. Why did they pick them?

[messyman]

3 hours ago, Goerge said:

Them Abena cloth backed nappies are garbage. Why did they pick them?

Diapers work way better in zero gravity.

[astrodiaper]

I expect they would have stayed with the diapers they had before.  If they need them, they'll be similar to what was available before, able to withstand 6+ hours of peeing. Of course, I believe that there is a sort of "potty" training that also includes not going through the water bottle, but not straight flooding the diaper.

[ValentinesStuff]

Those air bottles are giving me a very James Bond vibe. 

[widdlemikey]

The really SCARY thing I heard about Artemis... They brought a POTTY MONSTER on board!!! And it was angry.... not working very good.  lol

[TheMatt]

Can confirm, those cloth Abenas even the m4 ones are just awful. I’m sure they work better in 0-gravity, but still, the tapes loosen up and the fit is terrible. I thought NASA had some kind of above-and-beyond diaper called the Maximum Absorbency Garment. Why are they using off-the-shelf garbage now?

[spoonchicken]

6 days in a WET and Very messy dippy …I don’t care how awesome a road trip it is… that’s just EWW EWW EWW

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[astrodiaper]

If I remember correctly, the protocol for "MAGs" during the shuttle era were 3 per astronaut. One for launch, one for re-entry, and one for any EVA. (Spacewalk) I'm wonder what it would have been for this mission and for ISS missions, or at least how that gets handled.

I discovered some insight into astronaut "potty training" after finding out that astronaut Scott Kelly signed on for Goodnites "Mission Dry' campaign. In an article, he talks about being handed a diaper and told to practice at home.  A rather interesting read, especially when he had one of his fellow astronauts refuse and almost got himself catharized.  https://mashable.com/article/nasa-astronauts-space-diapers-mags

[grau]

Oh wow . . . those diapers are soooooooo bad

[puffy_bottom]

Man those poor astronauts having to wait like an hour because the radios weren't working while the Navy divers hovered around the capsule in their boats... wish they had something better to protect them.