Having a body

It’s a real annoyance, this business of corporeality. The body needs attention, hygiene, clothing, footwear, space. That above all, space: to occupy, to piss, to shit, to sleep, to share with other bodies. A total pain in the ass, really. I would love to be able to toss it aside somewhere and continue my journey without it, but I can’t.

-- Johan Moya Ramis, writing in Words Without Borders

Astronauts relieved as toilet functions with flying colors

NASA was relieved to find that a space toilet was working right, allowing astronauts to recycle piss as drinking water. The gizmo is essential for NASA's plan to double the number of people in orbit.

Meanwhile, you remember the bonehead play earlier this week when a space walker let a tool bag drift away. An Australian hobbyist has captured the debris in a photo.

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