Space Poop

Guest: Thatcher Cardon, Air Force Colonel, Flight Surgeon, BYU Alum, Winner of NASA’s Space Poop Challenge Sometimes NASA can be a bit wonky with its acronyms and scientific terms, but it minced no mincing words in naming its recent “Space Poop Challenge.” That’s the official name. The media had a bonanza with the potty puns covering it. But this is serious business. As NASA plans to send astronauts farther and farther into space, they need to plan for emergency situations that would require the crew to stay in their pressurized space suits for days on end. And how are astronauts going to do their business when they can’t get out of the suit?