NASA can’t decide whether astronauts should wash their underwear

By Mark Harris

NASA and Procter & Gamble (P&G) have signed an settlement to develop the primary detergent for laundry garments in area – regardless of a long-standing advice towards astronauts doing their very own laundry.

Whereas astronauts put on spacesuits when working outdoors the Worldwide House Station (ISS), they put on peculiar garments more often than not. As soon as these are too soiled to be worn, they’re then both returned to Earth as garbage or ejected together with different waste in a capsule to fritter away within the environment.

Underneath the brand new Space Act agreement …