Nasa Reveals What Happens to ISS Astronauts Poop

Within NASA’s infographic on Scott Kelly’s half of year in the stars, there are a number of eye-catching statistics.

While the results of the scientific studies on Kelly and Kornienko will not be revealed until after the mission is over, Kelly said he has taken note of how his body has adjusted to life in microgravity.

The mission, which also includes Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, aims to better understand effects of long-term living in space on humans.

NASA and Roscosmos are already investigating ideas for future space station missions to prove technologies and techniques necessary for trips deeper into the solar system. The space agency channel will feature Ultra-HD video sourced from high-resolution images and video generated on the worldwide Space Station (ISS) and other current NASA missions, as well as re-mastered footage from historical missions.

Another astronaut, Mark Kelly, stated that the ability to go to Mars is not based on technology and engineering challenges. Along with learning how much of Kelly’s feces burns up in Earth’s atmosphere, you can find out more about his overall radiation exposure or how his internal fluids will shift around in his body. This is the longest sojourn in space ever assigned to a NASA astronaut, although Russian cosmonauts have spent several missions of a year or longer on the Mir station.

Other space enthusiasts were quick to chime in as well, with one user noting that “unless [NASA] invented a completely new kind of camera”, the extraterrestrial body in question certainly could not be our great source of light and heat, despite its impressively bright appearance.

On Tuesday, Kelly and Kornienko celebrated the halfway point of their journey and NASA tweeted to congratulate them.

“What I am looking most forward to is just getting to the end of it with as much energy and enthusiasm as I had at the beginning” Kelly said in an interview from ISS broadcast.

Space isn’t a very human-friendly environment to put things mildly. Kelly told reporters that he hoped the research would show that humans are able to adapt to extended periods of space travel, telling them, “I think over the long term it won’t be an issue”. “I tried to get him to get a larger tattoo that said ‘Place probe here, ‘ but he didn’t go for that idea”.