Nine-year-old boy from Malaysia wins NASA competition for the best toilet for astronauts

A toilet in space has been a longstanding dilemma for astronauts. But thanks to the invention of a nine-year-old boy from Malaysia, they will soon be able to use the toilet without problems. The edition told in more detail SAYS.

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Zyson Kang Zi Soon - Champion NASA Lunar Loo Challenge 2020 in the junior category.

Kang's "lunar toilet" can be fitted into an astronaut's space suit and operate in microgravity in space, creating a vacuum to suck up liquids.

All the astronauts have to do is move their feet and press on the syringe attached to their boots to create suction to pump human waste from the release points into the container.

Kang's invention beat out the ideas of 897 participants from 85 countries.

Chong Soo Sheong, 43, who coached Kang at the Discovery World Science Center in Shah Alam, said the young inventor's successful project was no accident.

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“Zyson has a talent for invention. He is an avid reader with an extremely curious mind. Science is very exciting to him, especially astronomy,” said Chong.

He said Kang started the project in June and presented his model to the NASA team for evaluation in August.

“On October 29, the Space Agency invited him to present his model at a webinar. The NASA team was impressed by the simplicity of the boy's model, the mentor said not without pride. - The toilet does not require batteries or power supply. When you move your legs, the urine flows into the container in the astronaut's boots."

During a webinar with the NASA team, Kang added that his device could be used by doctors and nurses.

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“This design can be used not only in space, but also as a medical toilet,” a nine-year-old boy explained to one of the panelists, who was amazed by Kang’s charming delivery. “Since we are now in a pandemic, sometimes doctors and nurses need to pee or poop. So they can just do it (using device. - Ed.), even when saving people.”

That is, according to Chong, Kang's invention can help medical workers relieve themselves during an emergency without taking off their personal protective suit (PPE).

Although he is now a successful inventor, Kang dreams of becoming a geneticist.

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