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NASA’s Artemis II mission has carried astronauts outside the influence of the Earth’s orbit for the first time in over 50 years. Fifty years to get it right, and the astronauts have still been forced to pee in bags when their multi-million-dollar toilet failed (it still handled the solid waste). It appears that urine in one of the lines froze, and NASA had to reconfigure the orientation of the spacecraft (Orion) to place the frozen side toward the sun so it could thaw. It now works intermittently.

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BOISE — Half a year after The WaterShed launched 25 new interactive water and climate exhibits, the city of Boise’s water resources education center played host to an annual NASA Earth to Sky climate workshop for teachers.