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TIL Space Poop Challenge, a 2016 contest sponsored by NASA for new designs of space toilet systems for use in space suits, requesting "proposed solutions for fecal, urine, and menstrual management systems to be used in the crew’s launch and entry suits over a continuous duration of up to 144 hours".

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