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How do astronauts use the bathroom?

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There is a complicated system within their space suits, whereby they use absorbent pads and a siphoning system.

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Today, astronauts at the International Space Station poop into a little plate-sized toilet hole, and a fan vacuum-sucks their excrement away. A separate funnel equipped with a fan suctions their pee away.

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