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NASA: No Martian toilets means no Mars trip
International Business Times
19 Jun 2015 at 11:41 ET

The head of NASA has said that there won’t be any landings on Mars for a while because they don’t know where astronauts will go to the bathroom.

“Our technical abilities are not what we want it to be now. We need better life support systems, we need a toilet that’s not going to break on the way there, then when we get to the Martian surface we need [a toilet] that’s going to work over and over again. Toilets are a big deal,” said Major Charles Bolden.

According to the Telegraph, Major Bolden was speaking to a group of British schoolchildren for the Sky News show "Hotseat." The major said that NASA aimed to send humans to the Red Planet in the 2030s, but that it’ll probably be on an orbital mission without landing.

“We’re not going to send humans down to the surface of Mars to build the habitats, the houses; we’re probably going to use robots,” he said.

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