# Do they have "escaping poop" training on the ISS?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-have-escaping-poop-training-on-the-iss/695863
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [August 19, 2014, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-have-escaping-poop-training-on-the-iss/695863 "2014-08-19T00:22:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@Artemis\_Tardis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Artemis_Tardis)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2014, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-have-escaping-poop-training-on-the-iss/695863/1 "2014-08-19T00:22:32Z")
It is not so easy to poop in space. You usually need a few contraptions to make sure that poop goes to the correct place. But… what if the poop-o-matic machine fails? What if you sneeze and a turd comes out flying with all its might? Is there a procedure to catch dirty flying derbies?
(also, what would they do if the poop-o-matic breaks down?)
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### Author:  [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2014, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-have-escaping-poop-training-on-the-iss/695863/2 "2014-08-19T01:42:51Z")
> **[The Scoop on Space Poop: How Astronauts Go Potty](https://www.space.com/22597-space-poop-astronaut-toilet-explained.html)**
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> From rouge drops of pee to astronaut potty training, see how spaceflyers of the past and present deal with all-too-human toilet troubles.
more than you want to know
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2014, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-have-escaping-poop-training-on-the-iss/695863/3 "2014-08-19T07:14:05Z")
> [@Artemis\_Tardis](#):
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> . . . dirty flying derbies . . .
> **[CosCouture](https://coscouture.com)**
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> Great contents for learn
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### Author:  [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2014, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-have-escaping-poop-training-on-the-iss/695863/4 "2014-08-19T07:27:09Z")
[Actual logs](http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/mission_trans/AS10_CM.PDF) from Apollo 10:
05 13 29 44 CDR Oh - Who did it?
05 13 29 \_6 CMP Who did what?
05.13 29 47 LMP What?
05 13 29 49 CDR Who did it? (Laughter)
05 13 29 51 LMP Where did that come from?
05 13 29 52 CDR Give me a napkin quick. There’s a turd floating through the air.
05 13 29 55 CMP I didn’t do it. It ain’t one of mine.
05 13 29 57 LMP I don’t think it’s one of mine.
05 13 29 59 CDR Mine was a little more sticky than that. Throw that away.
05 13 30 06 CMP God almighty.
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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 -
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2014, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-have-escaping-poop-training-on-the-iss/695863/5 "2014-08-19T12:25:50Z")
There was a definite airflow direction on the old Skylab, so everything that was floating loose on the station eventually ended up on the airfilter. I’d imagine it’s the same on the ISS.
That would make the air filter the Space Station equivalent of the bilges in the oild sailing ships – the incredibly gross “lowest point” at which all the smelly, gross stuff ended up. Including escaped turds.
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### Author:  [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2014, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-have-escaping-poop-training-on-the-iss/695863/6 "2014-08-19T23:16:17Z")
> [@Dr.Strangelove](#):
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> [Actual logs](http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/mission_trans/AS10_CM.PDF) from Apollo 10:
“Logs”. Hee hee!
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2014, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-have-escaping-poop-training-on-the-iss/695863/7 "2014-08-19T23:21:15Z")
I read the thread title as asking whether ISIS had such training, and I didn’t think that’s what we have been bombarding them with.
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### Author:  [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2014, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-have-escaping-poop-training-on-the-iss/695863/8 "2014-08-20T04:25:42Z")
I love that episode of The Big Bang Theory.
“Meatloaf.”
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### Author:  [@SpeedwayRyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpeedwayRyan)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2014, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-have-escaping-poop-training-on-the-iss/695863/9 "2014-08-20T19:22:49Z")
Captain’s log?
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### Author:  [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2014, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-have-escaping-poop-training-on-the-iss/695863/10 "2014-08-20T19:26:30Z")
I orignally read the title as ‘Do they have “escaping poop” training in ISIS’?
I was very confused.
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2014, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-have-escaping-poop-training-on-the-iss/695863/11 "2014-08-20T19:31:18Z")
_In space no one can hear you [del]scream[/del] fart._
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2014, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-have-escaping-poop-training-on-the-iss/695863/12 "2014-08-20T19:34:29Z")
Donovan addressed this issue in the song [The Intergalactic Laxative](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iab9YKocUcw)
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### Author:  [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2014, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-have-escaping-poop-training-on-the-iss/695863/13 "2014-08-22T05:50:15Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#):
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> I read the thread title as asking whether ISIS had such training, and I didn’t think that’s what we have been bombarding them with.
Say, that’s an idea!
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### Author:  [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2014, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-have-escaping-poop-training-on-the-iss/695863/14 "2014-08-22T05:51:21Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#):
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> I love that episode of The Big Bang Theory.
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> “Meatloaf.”
Don’t say that! I like meat loaf.
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### Author:  [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2014, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-have-escaping-poop-training-on-the-iss/695863/15 "2014-08-22T06:13:55Z")
> [@drachillix](#):
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> [The Scoop on Space Poop: How Astronauts Go Potty | Space](http://www.space.com/22597-space-poop-astronaut-toilet-explained.html)
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> more than you want to know
From the article:
> [@](#):
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> For example, some scientists propose that human waste could line the walls of future spacecraft to act like a radiation shield, protecting astronauts from the harmful effects of cosmic rays.
Wow. Spaceships coated in shit. Well, I can’t imagine we’d not be welcomed with open arms by any alien civilization we meet… (“Why has nobody contacted the the civilization originating from the third planet of star system in the outer regions of galactic arm Draxx yet? They’re interstellar and all.” – “They fly in ships coated in their own excrement.” – “Well nevermind then.”)
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### Author:  [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2017, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-have-escaping-poop-training-on-the-iss/695863/16 "2017-03-02T15:37:44Z")
Some 25 proposals were recently submitted to NASA following their [Space Poop Challenge.](https://herox.com/SpacePoop)
The top-prize winner, Air Force Col. Thatcher Cardon, commander of the 47th Medical Group at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, developed this [g-string/perineal pad auto wipe, invert, and advance thingie](https://www.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/1095285/face-of-defense-air-force-doctor-solves-nasas-human-waste-problem), as far as I can tell.