Everybody poops. Even astronauts. Even the Apollo astronauts.
Given that most of the Apollo missions stayed on the Moon for about a day, it stands to reason that the men who walked at some point had to do their business. They did, and they left it behind—about 96 bags of it. Future space archaeologists are sure to find bags of urine, feces and … um … the contents of nauseated stomachs when humans return to the Moon some day. They may even test the material to see whether the flora inside the human byproducts survived and mutated.
The bags were left behind to make room for lunar dust and rocks the astronauts brought home to Earth. No one has yet investigated how the feces has fared on the surface of the Moon. Over at Gizmodo, they've got a list of other items left behind.
Okay, so maybe astronaut poo won't be the next big exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum, even if we could bring it back from the lunar surface. Still, this is a place that has a preserved space monkey named Able on display, so you never know.
Via Gizmodo.
