2021.11.10 | Q: How do you go to the toilet in space? A: Very carefully.

10/11/2021 47 min

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Episode Synopsis

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 10 November 2021:

A leaky toilet on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft has forced NASA to ask it's Crew 2 astronauts returning to Earth to use absorbent 'undergarments' – also known as 'adult diapers' for the eight-hour trip home.    
LeoLabs to construct space radars in Western Australia: LeoLabs has announced it will construct two phased-array space radars in Western Australia, the sixth site for the Silicon Valley startup’s global space domain awareness tracking network.
The recently released United States Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2020 has listed the giant Magellan telescope as one of it’s top priorities - and there’s an Australian connection. 
New insights about our Moon’s geologic history have been gained from the analysis of China’s Chang'e 5 lunar samples. Comparison with the analysis of Apollo lunar samples has identified both similarities and differences.
An in-depth look at CUAVA-1, Sydney University’s pioneering cubesat, with Professor Iver Cairns (@CairnsIver). 

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