Astronaut's Waste as FUEL

Regardless of whether you are at your home or 1000 miles away above earth, you have to attend nature's call.

But when you are in zero gravity something which is a no minute job turns into a major challenge. relieving yourself in space use to be an issue few years before, astronauts like Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong had fecal collection bags that stuck to their bottoms with adhesive when they had to go and microgravity could make things messy.

In 1963 astronaut Gordon Cooper launched on project Mercury,NASA had created a urine collection bag at that time, but near the end of his 22-orbit (32-hour mission), system after system in his capsule started failing.an investigation revealed that his urine bag leaked and droplets went into electronics,hobbing his automatic systems.

But today going to bathroom in space is much less tedious, but it still requires careful attention and space toilet training.

On the other side of coin researchers are working wonders, with the stuff we all move our heads off. On the international space station liquid waste are recycled through a special water treatment plan and turned back into drinking water.

Solid wastes are dried to remove all moisture, compressed and kept in an on-board storage container. They're removed and disposed of once the spacecraft has landed.

But now Indian researchers have developed a method that allows human waste in space to be converted into fuel that can be used to send future spacecraft missions from the Moon back to the Earth. The process would have benefits on earth also,it can be used to turn waste anywhere around town to fuel. Once this method is implemented and has wheels on it, it would be a turning point for our nation and mankind as a whole.

Human waste would to converted into methane resulting in enough power for rockets to bring astronauts home from exploring the moon or even more distant targets.

A human waste processing plant would resolve two major issues , one is the large amount of human waste and enormous amount of fuel which they have to carry for getting back to earth. A lot of brain brewing is already in process among scientists and engineers for the said method.

If a human waste processing plant was placed on moon, astronauts would be able to turn their waste into fuel for their return flight back to earth, this is what NASA expects by 2024.
Already a Human Waste Processing module was set on International Space station and worked under test conditions really well.

According to journal in the advances in space research, the amount of gas produced from a single crew member is impressive, and is very promising.

”The moon base would process the faecal matter into methane, a flammable gas that can be used to produce fuel for modern rockets. New techniques will see 290 liters of the gas per crew every day produced over the course of a week.