And they said it would have been easier to get her back from outer space.
And if it’s murder we get a new NCIS series, “NASA Criminal Investigation Service”
What an intriguing question! I decided to look it up. And I found the answer: NASA shrugs “Dunno!”
There really is no provision for a corpse in space. Since NASA does such thorough physical screenings and astronauts are only on the space station 6 months, they’re banking on prevention.
One option that’s out: dumping the body in space. There’s a UN agreement that bans dumping anything into space because it could hit a satellite or other craft. And something must be done with the body within 24 hours to avoid contamination.
One intriguing proposal comes from Promessa, a green burial company. It’s called theBody Backand is a GoreTex zip-up coffin. The body is placed inside, the “coffin” inflates, and then, after a brief funeral, the body is quick-frozen inside the airlock (-270C.), after which a robotic arm shakes it into human dust. Water vapor is evaporated, and the coffin is kept outside until just before re-entry. It folds itself into a neat square package.
The plan is designed for a spacecraft, not the ISS, and how doable this is remains to be seen. So far, though, it’s all NASA’s got.
Anyone who’s planning on a robot arm “shaking a body into dust” is seriously overestimating the speed of the robotic arms on the Space Station. If you watch carefully, you can see them moving.
Can the ISS “function” without a crew? Can we leave it up there, empty, for weeks or months, without it falling into disrepair?
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Howard Wolowitz built a robot arm that appears to be capable of more vigorous shaking. 
Astronaut Chris Hadfield’s book, An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth had portions about death during a space mission. I haven’t got the book nearby to find the relevant chapter(s) but I remember reading that it was certainly a possibility that has a plan in place.
This book convinced me that we will never have interplanetary or -stellar space travel, unless the speed of light can somehow be circumvented. She told a story about a space mission that was cut short; she doesn’t say who it was or what the news media was told, but the astronauts were brought back early because Mission Control seriously feared they would kill each other. There was also another one where an astronaut was slated to do a long-term mission, and s/he too had to be brought back early, because in this case s/he was rapidly going insane.
Cure: Bigger spacecraft. Large, sexually diverse crews. Adequate drugs. A holodeck.
Why? Because women aren’t supposed to go to the South Pole?
Because a doctor stationed at the South Pole is mostly going to be there to deal with emergencies (anything non-emergency will be dealt with by doctors in civilized areas), and gynecology, as a specialty, would not be relevant for most forms of medical emergencies.
Gynecological problems are always with female patients (or at least, patients with female bodies). But most problems with female bodies aren’t gynecological.