The Importance of Communication

While working at NASA, one of my job functions was speaking with members of the public and the press. And inevitably, in those conversations, two questions came up more than any others: “What do the astronauts eat?” and “How do the astronauts go to the bathroom?” In fact, I’ve been asked the very same questions by quite a few of my fellow IFT members over the years ... even as recently as last month!

Now, admittedly, it is a pretty amusing pair of queries to get, esp…