is a mini-kitchen for heating meals and a toilet, apart from storage space to keep supplies and emergency kits. During the simulation period, an astronaut spent three weeks living in it.

On Thursday evening, NASA is sending a new, $23 million toilet to the International Space Station. It's meant as a test: Astronauts on the ISS will test the toilet out before NASA installs an ...

In the film, Kathy Sullivan, a scientist and former astronaut from Ride’s NASA class, also credits Ride with becoming “the first woman to take stock of what they call crew equipment.” With Ride ...