How do astronauts urinate?

Answer 1

Yes they do drink in space, they drink water

Yes, they would die if they didn't drink some water.

The shuttle astronauts carry some of the water needed for themselves and also deliver water to the International Space Station. Over a year 2200 liters are transported at a cost of $US11000 per liter. The ISS also has a Russian built device that processes the humidity in the air and condenses it for drinking and other purposes. On the shuttle, water is produced as a byproduct of the orbiter's fuel cells converting hydrogen and oxygen to electricity.

Because of the massive cost of transporting water, NASA is working on a system that converts many of the astronauts' body fluids - and, yes, that includes urine - into drinkable water. See the Related Link below for the interesting details.

Answer 2

Yes, sort of. At the space station, astronauts are testing a device that purifies astronauts own urine into pure drinkable potable water through a series of reverse osmosis, filters, and chemical treatments.

Here is a link to NASA.gov discussing the mission experiment:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/behindscenes/waterrecycler.html

Answer 3

The same way that handicapped people do on earth.

Both men and women have a collection bag attached to the inside of their leg with 2 hoses attached to it. One hose is attached to them. It has a check valve in it to keep the urine flowing in the proper direction. The other hose is for dumping the urine. The only difference between the men and women is how the bag is attached to the person.

Women have a catheter inserted into them. The catheter has a small bag near the end which is inflated to keep it from coming out. The urine flows constantly through the tube and is collected into a bag which is attached to the inside of the leg, which is emptied whenever it fills.

Men have a condom attached to them which is held on with a piece of tape and a little glue. Yes, they have been known to break and leak in space. The far end of the condom is attached to a tube with runs to a bag attached to the inside of the leg, which is emptied. A male collection device is not free flowing.

Any urine not brought back to earth is dumped overboard. When the dumping occurs, the urine freezes immediately, creating billions of small ice crystals which reflect the sun's light, creating the effect of twinkling stars.

Answer 4

they are called astronauts and no they have a special space toilet that sucks in air so that they will not float away and for the boys there is a tube so their you know what wont get sucked in and their pee wont float away

Answer 5

They have a system in their suit that they can just go and its filtered out.

or if they are in the space shuttle or space station, they aren't wearing a suit and they just go like normal.... except they have to wear a seat belt type strap, so they don't float off and ........ make a mess

Answer 6

Why to drink recycled urine? They have proper water, juices, alchohol, liqour etc.

Look they live in the aircraft just like the way they live on earth.

Answer 7

Since it would be recycled and cleaned, and only the water content used, I suppose it would have to do if there was no other water source.

Answer 8

They use tubes which recycle the urine into drinking water.