See the Space Station Toss Trash From an Air Lock for the First Time

Wherever humans go, they generate trash.

Over the weekend, NASA and space company Nanoracks demonstrated a new way to deal with ISS waste.

The test involved Nanoracks' Bishop Airlock.

Now, for the first time, it’s been used to eject garbage.

The demonstration could give the ISS crew a new option for waste disposal.

Nanoracks is developing a space stationof its own that it hopes to have operational by 2027.

A similar trash disposal system could become a part of that station’s design.

The trash bag will eventually burn up in Earth’s atmosphere.

Back in February,Nanoracks notedthat it could take about nine months for this process to complete.

Until then, there will probably be some dirty ISS undies making the rounds in orbit.