Even before your arrival, your return can be described as suboptimal with a clear conscience.
Four astronauts on the ISS are on their way back to Earth - and have to wear diapers.
Cape Canaveral - Without a functioning toilet on board their "Crew Dragon", four astronauts undocked from the International Space Station ISS on Monday.
The so-called "Crew-2" - consisting of the French Esa astronaut Thomas Pesquet and the NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur as well as the Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide - is to land in the sea off the US state of Florida on Tuesday, like the US -Nasa space agency announced.
Because the toilet on board Elon Musk's “Crew Dragon” of the space company SpaceX is broken, the four astronauts who have been on the ISS since April have to wear a kind of diaper when they return.
That was "suboptimal", McArthur had said in advance at a press conference.
"But there are a lot of small challenges in space travel and we are ready to get that under control."
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