You gotta hold it...

Did you hear?
Life on the space station has gotten a bit less Jetson-esque.
The crapper is backed up. Well, not literally - it seems that space toilets aren't like our terrestrial commodes.

"While using the toilet system in the Service Module, the crew heard a loud noise and the fan stopped working. After some troubleshooting the crew reported that the air/water separator was not working.”

It is good to know that when everyday things break in space it is still accompanied by a loud noise. It does seem that rocket-scientist types could be more descriptive in describing the failure.

They tried to fix the thing, but like broken toilets here on Earth sometimes it takes more than jiggling the handle.

NASA spokesman Josh Byerly confirmed that the toilet was still balky.

“Over the weekend the crew experienced more trouble with space station toilet, they had thought they had corrected it but the same fault returned, and they fixed it again.” The final report “It failed again this morning,”

There is a back up system (since the toilet in the Soviet capsule only stores a few days worth of space poop) - icky sticky plastic bag things.

Sometimes, being an astronaut is less than cool.

How much do you suppose a plastic space crap sack costs?

I should just stop, now...