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GovExec Daily: NASA's New Space Toilet Project

Nextgov's Brandi Vincent joins the podcast to discuss the Universal Waste Management System.

Living in space presents many problems. NASA and other national space agencies have spent billions of dollars on creating a livable environment on the International Space Station, which includes the very normal need to use the bathroom. 

NASA  is sending a resupply mission this week to the International Space Station that includes a new, updated space toilet for the astronauts living on the ISS. Nextgov's Brandi Vincent is covering the story and she joined the program to talk about the new toilet. 

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