Valuable Cargo
On Monday morning, the spacecraft carrying a brand-new bathroom lastly arrived on the Worldwide Area Station.
The long-awaited delivery confirmed up alongside cargo and scientific experiments on the S.S. Kalpana Chawla, a Northrup Grumman spacecraft named after one of many astronauts who died within the Area Shuttle Columbia catastrophe, Space.com reports. As soon as it’s put in, ISS crewmembers will test it out for a number of months to see if it’s minimize out for future missions to the Moon.
Welcome to the @Space_Station, Kalpana Chawla!
At the moment we obtained #Cygnus #NG14 spacecraft named after Kalpana Chawla, the primary astronaut of Indian origin launched into area however died within the Shuttle Columbia catastrophe. Like final time, @Astro_SEAL and me captured the spacecraft pic.twitter.com/jMttWfj4TS
— Ivan Vagner (@ivan_mks63) October 5, 2020
Occupied!
As soon as it’s put in, ISS crewmembers will test it out for a number of months to see if it’s minimize out for future missions to the Moon.
The bathroom, which is the primary one which NASA’s despatched to the ISS since 1990, is designed to be extra accessible and user-friendly than the present one, which has additionally become a notorious hazard for crewmembers.
Trying Forward
The unique bathroom will keep the place it’s, but it surely was designed to be greatest fitted to males, leaving girls on the ISS with an unfair wrestle.
That will probably be essential if the bathroom passes the check and tags alongside on the upcoming Artemis missions, throughout which NASA hopes to send the first woman to the floor of the Moon.
READ MORE: The International Space Station Finally Got its New Space Toilet [Space.com]
Extra on the area bathroom: NASA Says It Needs a New Space Toilet for the Artemis Moon Missions
