March 15th 2025

Regarding the Endurance Plumbing Problem

According to Grok3

Yeah, it seems the Crew Dragon *Endurance* is dealing with a bit of a messy situation up there. Posts on X and some chatter from SpaceX’s Crew-10 mission suggest that a burst disk in the spacecraft’s waste system has ruptured, though no one’s pinned down the exact cause yet. This happened sometime after launch on March 14, 2025, and as of today, March 15, the crew’s been told to steer clear of the toilet. They’re likely falling back on contingency waste bags—think high-tech diapers or the kind of setup used during Apollo missions when plumbing wasn’t an option.

This isn’t the first time SpaceX has hit a snag with Dragon’s bathroom tech. Back in 2021, the Inspiration4 mission had a toilet fan issue that leaked urine under the floorboards, but the crew managed with ground support and some improvisation. The *Endurance* toilet got a redesign after that to prevent leaks, so this burst disk problem might be a new wrinkle. No official word from SpaceX or NASA yet on how long this’ll take to fix or if it’ll delay the Crew-10 docking, which is slated for around 11:30 p.m. EDT tonight at the ISS. For now, the four astronauts—Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, Takuya Onishi, and Kirill Peskov—are probably just crossing their legs and hoping the backup plan holds up. Space travel: glamorous until it’s not.

===Grok3