The International Space Station Is Getting A Toilet Upgrade From Nasa

For years astronauts living on the US side of the International Space Station (ISS) have been using an outdated toilet in the spacecraft. The waste management system for the US astronauts in the ISS was designed way back in 1990 and hasn’t been upgraded since then. Now, the space organization is planning to install a more advanced waste management system called the “Universal Waste Management System” (UWMS) that will be easier to use by the astronauts.

Now, the new waste management system fixes many issues of the current toilet system. However, if NASA wants to organize longer space missions for the astronauts, like the Artemis Project, then they have to think about a bigger storage facility for the biological wastes of the astronauts.