- PRODUCT DESIGN | CONCEPTUAL
- AUG 2020
- HeroX NASA Lunar Loo Challenge
- Co-work w/ YUHAN ROH, DOMINIQUE BRELAND & ALEX KRIVITSKY
The Unisex Foldable Air-Breathing (UFAB) Lunar Toilet was developed in response to NASA’s Lunar Loo Challenge, a competition hosted by HeroX, which called for a design of a compact toilet system that can be used aboard both lunar landers and rovers throughout the course of a 14-day round trip to and from the lunar surface.
Similar to a foldable chair, the entire structure of the UFAB toilet can be collapsed when not in use to save space, and the folding mechanism is linked with the pincher that closes the mouth of the waste bag, allowing the folding of the toilet and closing of the waste bag to be done in a single motion. To ensure that body waste falls into the bag in microgravity and lunar gravity, a fan on the bottom generates suction force through the waste bag, which is made of Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) that lets gas through but keeps liquid and solid inside.
