Epic gross level, for sure, but if you’re a scientist confronted with never-before-seen microbial life, it would be kind of dumb not to, and you’d be laughed at come the annual Dung Awards, which should totally be a thing. 

Now, consider the human dung on the moon. During the six Apollo missions that landed on Earth’s natural satellite, around 96 bags of human waste were left behind for no reason other than to stabilize weight onboard. For every moon rock that was brought back home, an equal weight needed to be shed, and bags filled with astronaut diapers seemed the logical exchange at the time. Yes, astronaut diapers. They called them “maximum absorbency garments,” but really, it’s just a big ol’ diaper. Let’s take a quick beat here and look at this feat of scientific engineering:

                                                                                                  

That was just for when the astronauts were on the moon itself. When they weren’t bopping around on the surface, they had to deal with what was called the “Apollo fecal collection assembly,” which is basically a plastic bag attached to an astronaut’s butt:

Space is rad.