# Astronaught shit **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 13, 2003, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/astronaught-shit/175040 "2003-05-13T20:18:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rhino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a5b964/32.png) [@Rhino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhino)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/astronaught-shit/175040/1 "2003-05-13T20:18:48Z")
I suppose this question has been asked frequently. but how do the space ship people deal with s\*\*\* and p\*\* ? I have been looking a new book with the history of the Apollo flights. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/astronaught-shit/175040/2 "2003-05-13T20:21:39Z")
I thought s\*\*\* and p\*\* were the same 😃 Maybe you meant p\*\*\*? ---
**Author:** ![Earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/90db22/32.png) [@Earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthling)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/astronaught-shit/175040/3 "2003-05-13T20:46:31Z")
I think Rhino meant “ee,” not “oo.” Anyway, it’s astronaut. N-A-U-T. With that, we are allowed to glean [Cecil’s wisdom](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_032b.html). ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/astronaught-shit/175040/4 "2003-05-13T21:08:20Z")
Leave it up to Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki in Australia to explain how [space toilets](http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/moments/s348188.htm) operate. He really does know his shit, even if he doesn’t know Cecil. ---
**Author:** ![Rhino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a5b964/32.png) [@Rhino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhino)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/astronaught-shit/175040/5 "2003-05-14T00:32:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Earthling \* > \*\*I think Rhino meant “ee,” not “oo.” > > Anyway, it’s astronaut. N-A-U-T. With that, we are allowed to glean [Cecil’s wisdom](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_032b.html). \*\* * * * Yes Earthling , I meant shit and piss, Didn’t want to offend anyone with those Anglo Saxons words . Hard to realize that there once was a time when those words did offend some folks, Astronaut . correction appreciated. Well what I thought might have been the case before the flying hotel now in which the astronauts are out of their space suits, was the case.!! Interesting new term for me " The Apollo Bag" ---
**Author:** ![eburacum45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum45/32/8690_2.png) [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/astronaught-shit/175040/6 "2003-05-14T02:23:37Z")
> [@](#): > > One of the astronauts has said “there is nothing as beautiful as a urine dump at sunset”. Ah, the ‘constellation Urion.’ It is amazing how many apparently unidentified objects [UFOs] on film brought back from space turn out to be waste travelling in orbit with the space craft. * * * Sci-fi worldbuilding at [http://www.orionsarm.com/main.html](http://www.orionsarm.com/main.html) ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/astronaught-shit/175040/7 "2003-05-14T05:15:41Z")
Well, that kind of supports the idea that UFO sigthings are pure crap… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bob55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Bob55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob55)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/astronaught-shit/175040/8 "2003-05-14T05:25:23Z")
I think they use some sort of suction device. ---
**Author:** ![Rhino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a5b964/32.png) [@Rhino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhino)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/astronaught-shit/175040/9 "2003-05-14T20:32:40Z")
Besides the shit, does other stuff left from the booster rocket parts still float around in space? ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/astronaught-shit/175040/10 "2003-05-14T21:48:53Z")
The booster rockets on the Space Shuttle are jettisoned before orbit, and parachute into the ocean. Ditto for the Saturn V rocket stages. However rest assured there is quite an assortment of space junk orbiting our planet- I wonder how many dead satellites there are… ---
**Author:** ![Earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/90db22/32.png) [@Earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthling)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/astronaught-shit/175040/11 "2003-05-14T21:49:31Z")
You mean, like, [space](http://www.space.com/spacewatch/space_junk.html) [junk](http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98jul/junk.htm)? Yes, lots of it is still floating in space, and it’s a problem. ---
**Author:** ![eburacum45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum45/32/8690_2.png) [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/astronaught-shit/175040/12 "2003-05-14T22:23:09Z")
[Saturn V booster goes into orbit](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2253385.stm)round the Sun, and occasionally gets recaptured by the Earth… Iwonder if there are any more up there. ---
**Author:** ![Rhino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a5b964/32.png) [@Rhino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhino)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/astronaught-shit/175040/13 "2003-05-15T01:51:37Z")
I am reading this book \APOLLO, The Epic Journey to the moon. \ publshed last year. author David Reynolds. I am surprised to learn that the Apollo that made it to the moon was Apollo 17 and that # 9-17 all had additional names e.g. Apollo9 was “Gumdrop”, #16 was “Casper”. I was surprised at the size of some of the stuff they shot(or sent?) up.