NASA explains what happens to Astronaut poop in space

NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly, twin brother of Tucsonan Mark Kelly (a retired astronaut and husband of Gabby Giffords), has made it through the first six months of his year in space.

To get the radiation experience that Kelly will receive during his one year in space, you will have to travel 5250 times from New York to Los Angeles.

Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko left Earth in March and will spend a total of 342 days in space. It doesn’t technically specify that the experiments will be on Scott Kelly’s body, but we would assume so, since that’s what the infographic is about. “Your feces will not be shooting stars”, they tell us, because we’re not that special. The project is aiming to study what happens to the human body while in space.

Scott Kelly, NASA astronaut, is in the midway through his 365 days long mission aboard the international Space Station. Astronaut Scott Kelly has officially reached the midpoint of his #YearInSpace mission.

“According to the graphic, he’ll [Kelly] be making plenty of material for shooting stars”.

Kelly will have drunk 730 litres of recycled urine and sweat by the time he completes his year in space. Kelly, according to NASA, will be drinking the recycled urine and sweat.

Besides poop and urine, some exciting facts about Kelly’s “Year in Space” have also been shared by NASA’s infographic. By contrast we just see 684 sunrises during a year.

He will exercise more than 700 hours during his year-long mission as he strives to keep his bones, muscles and heart strong.

And his mission will surely be fruitful as about 383 experiments, on which some were created by Nobel laureates, will be conducted during the “Year in Space”. At this rate, Kelly would take 21600 years to run to Mars, which is 140 million miles away from Earth.