Potty training: Nasa tests new £18m titanium space toilet

Northrup Grumman’s Antares rocket sits on the launch pad after an abort at the NASA Wallops test flight facility Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, in Wallops Island, Va. The rocket will deliver supplies to the International Space Station (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Nasa’s first new space toilet in decades — a $23m titanium facility better suited for women — is getting a not-so-dry run at the International Space Station before eventually flying to the moon.

It is packed inside a cargo ship that should have blasted off late on Thursday from Wallops Island, Virginia, but the launch was aborted with two minutes to go. Northrop Grumman said it will try again on Friday night if engineers can figure out what went wrong.