→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut Why a Bakers Dozen is 13 Instead of 12 https://youtu.be/UPDV0POS5d0?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3XRa-w_G0dy_aMMXj0Uq-k Why Vampires Can't Exist... and 9 Other Amazing Facts https://youtu.be/cDlat4Pdd4U?list=PLR0XuDegDqP1IHZBUZvKkPwkTr6Gr0OBO In this video: In the early years of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), manned space flights were to be so short that the astronauts were reasonably expected to hold it. For example, the mission that sent the first American into space, Mercury-Redstone 3 inFreedom 7, was planned to last only 15 minutes. Forgetting to expect the unexpected, NASA engineers assumed that Freedom 7’s pilot would be free of the cockpit long before nature called. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/01/astronauts-go-bathroom-space/ Sources: http://theweek.com/article/index/246636/a-brief-history-of-astronauts-urinating-in-space http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2009-05-21-space-urine_N.htm http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2013/03/how-do-astronauts-go-to-the-bathroom-in-space/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2296270/How-use-toilet-zero-gravity-Former-ISS-commander-reveals-secret-space-stations-smallest-room.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_travelers_by_name http://www.nbcnews.com/id/31996266/ns/technology_and_science-space/#.UsGoMqVATwI http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/sts1/gagarin_anniversary.html http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mercury/missions/manned_flights.html#.UsGdvaVATwK http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo11.html#.UsGfWqVATwI