China launched the crewed spaceship Shenzhou-13 on Oct. 16, sending three astronauts to its space station core module Tianhe for a six-month mission.
To solve the problem of using the bathroom in outer space, a research team from Donghua University in eastern China's Shanghai has developed a "space toilet".
Since the 1990s, the research team of Donghua University has been carrying out multi-disciplinary research using aerospace sanitary materials. They also designed a special toilet for female astronauts.
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