Space & Astronomy

Astronaut tasked with repairing ISS toilets

By T.K. Randall
November 28, 2016 ·  2 comments

Plumbers are few and far between 400km above the Earth. Image Credit: NASA The 38-year-old, who is the first French astronaut in almost a decade, was all smiles as he arrived aboard the International Space Station just over a week ago alongside NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, who at 56 is now officially the oldest woman to have ever been in space.The pair didn't get much time to settle in however before they were tasked with what is perhaps the least glamorous job possible for an astronaut - fixing the station's zero-gravity lavatory.

Recreating @BigBangTheory up here! Almost a full day of toilet-fixing yesterday but @AstroPeggy did most of the work. Tips @SimonHelberg? pic.twitter.com/0DWGGgkKBN

— Thomas Pesquet (@Thom_astro) November 23, 2016

"It was a spot of bad luck," said Pesquet. "But at the same time I reckoned that as this happened at the start of the mission we have used up our quota of bad luck."

Source: Telegraph | Comments (2)

Tags: ISS, Astronauts