NASA’s Lunar Loo Competition // Designing a Toilet for Artemis
I think most officeinsight readers are familiar with Duravit AG, the German manufacturer of designer bathroom fixtures. When I recently read that Franziska Wülker, a young female development engineer at Duravit, had won 3rd prize in a NASA sponsored design competition to design a new space toilet, “The Lunar Loo,” I knew it was a story I had to write. I’ve been a rocket and space nut since childhood. When I was in middle school (we actually called it junior high those many years ago) my nephew and I – he’s only two years my junior – started a rocket club designing, firing and sometimes exploding rockets fueled by our self-made rocket fuel of potassium nitrate and sugar. Now, I follow the daily triumphs and set-backs of SpaceX on YouTube as they hurtle toward the design, development and deployment of Starship and Super Heavy, a launch and return system where …
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