{"id":707549,"date":"2021-11-07T20:34:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T00:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=707549"},"modified":"2021-11-07T20:34:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T00:34:08","slug":"a-broken-toilet-on-spacex-capsule-means-astronauts-will-return-to-earth-in-diapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=707549","title":{"rendered":"A broken toilet on SpaceX capsule means astronauts will return to Earth in diapers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ap21113269514287_wide-f526f6fae44ca7ec728eaec08dadfd10adbec16b.jpg\" alt=\"The Crew Dragon space capsule astronauts, from front left, European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronaut Megan McArthur, NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NASA astronaut Megan McArthur called the situation &#8220;sub-optimal,&#8221; but says the crew&#8217;s four astronauts are &#8220;prepared to deal with it.&#8221; They will return home after spending nearly 200 days in space.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: John Raoux\/AP)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/npr-rss-pixel-5.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/11\/07\/1053383188\/a-broken-toilet-on-spacex-capsule-means-astronauts-will-return-to-earth-in-diape\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A broken toilet on SpaceX capsule means astronauts will return to Earth in diapers<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA astronaut Megan McArthur called the situation &#8220;sub-optimal,&#8221; but says the crew&#8217;s four astronauts are &#8220;prepared to deal with it.&#8221; They will return home after spending nearly 200 days in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=707549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=707549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=707549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=707549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}