Drain brain: Nasa offers prize money for best lunar loo design

Agency hopes to attract novel solutions for its Artemis mission to the moon in 2024

It certainly isn't the prime focus of the mission," said Nasa's Mike Interbartolo. We're not going back to the moon so we can say we pooped on the moon, but we don't want an Apollo situation either."

Interbartolo, is project manager for the Lunar Loo Challenge, a Nasa competition launched on Thursday that hopes to attract new and innovative solutions to the problem of capturing and containing human waste in space.