The Buckets by Greg Cravens for October 05, 2021

LOL. Good one. :D

The doggos took their own spacebaggies.

And the dogs were brought down safely and treated as heroes and spend their twilight years on a farm where they got to chase (but never quite catch) very slow rabbits.

In space no one can smell dog poop.

Don’t forget there were also monkeys and chimps.

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A poo while walking in space, ignoring the problem of maintaining suit integrity while venting the poo, would destabilize the pooche’s trajectory, not to mention the dog would have trouble squatting, and we would need to establish the vector of poo exit, from both the suit and the dog, to properly apply correcting thrust to prevent the dog from tumbling out of control.

As far as Eddie’s concern, the dark/unlit side of the poo would be frozen, while the sun side of the poo would be out gassing (literally gas, but also moisture) making it, or rather them, tiny comets. The problem would not be stepping on, or in, them, but them hitting your spacesuit.

It’s a shame that none of those “astronaut” dogs survived.

The dogs didn’t mark their territory so much.

Fun fact: when an astronaut spacewalk the inside of his suit is at a lower atmosphere than normal, which means there’s an effect of succion and gases escape the human body. Which means that they fart continuously during the walk.

Before TASS released Laika’s name (which simply means “Dog”), the U.S. press referred to her as “Muttnik” (per a book of space trivia by an astronaut who’d been tapped for the next Apollo mission if there’d been one. I forget whether he was on Skylab, a Shuttle, or both.)