First Man (review)

[BD80]

We all owe Buzz Aldrin a debt of gratitude for pointing out to Ali G that we weren't going to be landing on the sun (even in Winter when the weather is cooler, as Ali G pointed out)...

That's just silly. Everyone knows that the sun is in the tropics and the only seasons they have in the tropics are the wet season and the dry season.

It doesn't matter what season, as long as you land at night ...

[Tom B.]

the first natural question, answered

That article is the very definition of TMI.

Here's another one discussing some of the same issues. Among the facts I did not know:

(1) The first space shuttle mission had to deal with the problem of, ahem..."floating fecal dust" in the crew area when the onboard waste containment system (which had never been tested in space before, because it was a new system that was custom-designed for the shuttle) didn't quite operate as planned; and

(2) "Today on the International Space Station, urine is processed through a filtration system and turned into drinking water[.]"