The Artemis II mission has made history as the first crewed journey to the Moon in over fifty years. The mission's astronauts have become the humans who have ever traveled farthest from Earth, reaching a distance of 406,771 kilometers. However, beyond the historic achievement, these missions can always involve unforeseen events: some significant and even dangerous, and others more anecdotal. In this case, an unexpected situation occurred just over an hour after launch, when NASA detected an incident with the Orion spacecraft's toilet and a problem with the lavatory system, which was not functioning correctly: the waste suction system was failing due to a possible misalignment caused by launch vibrations. The malfunction forced engineers to intervene from the control center and was eventually resolved by the crew itself.

The day after the four astronauts of the Artemis II mission have made history by becoming the humans who have traveled farthest into space —406,771 kilometers from Earth—, ARA interviews Josep Maria Trigo, principal investigator of the Asteroids, Comets, Meteorites and Planetary Sciences group at the Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC) and the Institute of Catalan Studies for Space (IEEC).