The toilet was a project that was decades in the making—and it began right after the Apollo 11 mission, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had to defecate in plastic bags.

The Orion spacecraft’s toilet system has failed for the second time since the Artemis II crew launched toward the Moon, ...

As Artemis II neared the moon, a malfunctioning commode forced astronauts to rely on backup urine bags in deep space.