Better not to piss in diaper in space, says China’s first spaceman – People’s Daily

From People’s Daily Online:

“Better not to piss in diaper,” said China’s first man in space, “Baby doesn’t like it, neither does an adult.”

Senior Colonel Yang Liwei of the Chinese astronaut brigade told a curious audience who questioned Yang about his experience in the country’s first space mission, Shenzhou-5, in October 2003.

So far, Yang and other two Chinese astronauts who flied the second space mission in October 2005, had never pissed in a diaper, though they all wore it at the time. There was a toilet in the spaceship, but it could not be used before the spaceship entered the orbit. [Full Text]

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