Overview
- Charmin, which posted the offer Thursday on Instagram, said it will give each astronaut a year’s supply — 14 Forever Rolls and a stainless-steel stand per person — when they return.
- NASA reported a blinking fault light on Orion’s toilet soon after launch and said mission control restored normal function, though venting urine to space has been slower than expected.
- Flight director Rick Henfling said the challenge is evacuating the tank because the vent flow is lower than planned, which has required fallback waste-handling methods.
- The crew suspected ice on an external vent and pointed the capsule toward the sun to thaw it, yet the venting issue persisted as the spacecraft stayed on its return path.
- Orion carries NASA’s $23 million Universal Waste Management System, which uses vacuum suction to vent urine to space and stores feces in canisters, giving the crew a rare privacy stall on a near‑lunar flight.