# Apollo 10: "Here's another goddam turd" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 6, 2013, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apollo-10-heres-another-goddam-turd/654989 "2013-04-06T05:13:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apollo-10-heres-another-goddam-turd/654989/1 "2013-04-06T05:13:11Z")
Or, A Crappy Day On The Apollo 10 Mission So here’s something nobody tells you about the brave Apollo 10 astronauts: They apparently spent some time chasing loose shit around their space craft. [This PDF of the radio transcript is apparently unedited; it is 506 pages long and has to be one of the few official products of NASA to contain the exact string “goddam turd”](http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/mission_trans/AS10_CM.PDF): > [@page 366](#): > > 05 05 23 52 CDR [STAFFORD] (Laughter) Have you got the turd? > 05 05 23 53 CMP [YOUNG] - - … the stuff. You got a big mess. People are mad at you. > 05 05 23 58 CDR (Laughter) > 05 05 24 03 CMP And I don’t blame them. > 05 05 24 14 CDR (Laughter) Dadgum, I still think it’s funny, putting that load in … Hey, Joe. You ought to get a little award from the … for that one. > 05 05 24 25 LMP [CERNAN] Yes. > 05 05 24 27 CDR (Laughter) > 05 05 24 31 LMP By God, the … would be the first time - the first free crap in space. > [@page 421](#): > > 05 13 38 29 LMP They said on 135. They told us that - Here’s another goddam turd. What’s the matter with you guys? Here, give me a - > 05 13 38 37 CDR/CMP (Laughter) > 05 13 38 39 LMP Well, babe, if it was me, I sure would know I was shitting on the floor. > 05 13 38 43 CDR It was just floating around? > 05 13 38 45 LMP Yes. > 05 13 38 47 CDR (Laughter) Mine was sticker than that. > 05 13 38 52 CMP Mine was too. It hit that bag – > 05 13 38 53 LMP When I stuck my finger in mine - mine was too soft. God dang. > 05 13 39 01 CDR (Laughter) > 05 13 39 03 LMP (Laughter) I don’t know whose that is. I can neither claim it nor disclaim it (laughter). > 05 13 39 09 CMP What the hell is going on in here? > 05 13 39 10 LMP I don’t know. I - that’s what I was up against when - (laughter) - After Tom stuck his in there, I figured, Jesus, how- > 05 13 39 22 CMP Something wrong there. We’re going to have to get all that crap out. It’s supposed to go clean back over that … there. [The Distractions In Space Tumblr has more somewhat similar to this.](http://distractionsinspace.tumblr.com/) Some of it _doesn’t_ involve free-floating feces! (_Imagine that!_) ---
**Author:** ![iftheresaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecae2f/32.png) [@iftheresaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iftheresaway)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apollo-10-heres-another-goddam-turd/654989/2 "2013-04-06T05:48:53Z")
This is what I learned from Mary Roach’s _Packing for Mars_ - How much of space exploration s about poop containment. An amazing book, by the way. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apollo-10-heres-another-goddam-turd/654989/3 "2013-04-06T16:33:07Z")
Ron Howard’s next film? ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apollo-10-heres-another-goddam-turd/654989/4 "2013-04-06T16:34:53Z")
I’d like to know how exactly the turds, shall we say, got loose. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apollo-10-heres-another-goddam-turd/654989/5 "2013-04-06T16:42:29Z")
If you think about it, this kind of problem was probably inevitable in zero g with no toilet. You try to hit the bag but it seems like there are bound to be mishaps. I think the ISS has one or more toilets that use a vacuum to prevent this kind of thing but putting such a thing in an Apollo command module or a LEM would probably be out of the question. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apollo-10-heres-another-goddam-turd/654989/6 "2013-04-06T17:11:33Z")
Oh gravity (or lack thereof), thou art a heartless bitch. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apollo-10-heres-another-goddam-turd/654989/7 "2013-04-08T15:11:12Z")
One little push for man, one giant turd for mankind. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apollo-10-heres-another-goddam-turd/654989/8 "2013-04-08T20:33:37Z")
When I was in college I visited NASA with a guy who was on a lot of the recovery teams for Mercury and Gemini. He said that when they opened up the hatch of one of the long term Gemini missions it smelled like, well like shit. Really, really intense shit. BTW, when I visited the bathroom of the visitors area of the Huntsville, AL NASA facility had an exhibit about the waste system of spacesuits. The world’s most interesting bathroom, with the possible exception of the one at the Madonna Inn. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apollo-10-heres-another-goddam-turd/654989/9 "2013-04-08T20:39:39Z")
Wow. We can put a man on the Moon, but we can’t contain a gravity-defying turd. That should be NASA’s new motto. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apollo-10-heres-another-goddam-turd/654989/10 "2013-04-08T21:08:13Z")
I was curious as to when zip-loc type bags were developed. Mid 50’s, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apollo-10-heres-another-goddam-turd/654989/11 "2013-04-08T21:38:34Z")
> [@iftheresaway](#): > > This is what I learned from Mary Roach’s _Packing for Mars_ - How much of space exploration s about poop containment. An amazing book, by the way. I agree. I’m remembering a description of a toilet that used air currents to help the excreta head down a tube to a holding tank. Unfortunately, the air made a vortex in the tank. Some to most of what was excreted would eventually touch the sides of the tank and freeze in place. Anything that kept riding the vortex had the possibility of coming back up the tube when it was opened, in the manner of a ping pong ball in a lottery machine. So a past success could turn into a failure later. And don’t ask about the dreaded ‘decapitation’. ---
**Author:** ![CapnPitt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/edb3f5/32.png) [@CapnPitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CapnPitt)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apollo-10-heres-another-goddam-turd/654989/12 "2013-04-08T21:46:52Z")
That’s just awesome! ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apollo-10-heres-another-goddam-turd/654989/13 "2013-04-09T01:40:25Z")
’ Houston, we have a movement ’ 😃 And… [Why can’t men read instructions??](http://www.headstonecity.com/blog/wp-content/zero-gravity-toilet-instructions.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apollo-10-heres-another-goddam-turd/654989/14 "2013-04-09T14:29:32Z")
That’s what happens when they let Wolowitz design the toilets. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apollo-10-heres-another-goddam-turd/654989/15 "2013-04-09T14:52:14Z")
Apparently they didn’t think much of the moon maps they were supplied with, either! P296: 05 00 01 51 CMP Boy, this is sure a crummy map. P301: 5 O0 14 32 LMP This is the worst map I ever saw in my life. P437: 05 14 13 12 CMP Shit, this freaking map is worthless! P438: 05 l4 17 1 CMP This map is sh - crappy! 🙂