Artemis toilet
Definition
The specialized waste management system installed in NASA's Orion spacecraft, designed for use during Artemis missions to the Moon, featuring suction technology and restraints to handle microgravity conditions.
A term popularized by recent space news referring to the Orion capsule's toilet that malfunctioned shortly after the Artemis II launch on April 2, 2026, causing a humorous PR headache for NASA.
Examples
The Artemis toilet held up just long enough to make headlines before throwing a cosmic tantrum.
Astronauts on Artemis II trained for zero-G flips, but nobody prepped them for the toilet's dramatic debut.
Forget moon rocks; the real souvenir from Artemis II might be stories about wrestling the rebellious Artemis toilet.
NASA fixed the Artemis toilet faster than they fixed traffic to the launch site.