We’ve all been there. A friend’s house party. Dinner with the in-laws. A busy gas station. You go to use the toilet, and it just… doesn’t… flush. This level of dread can only be described as a nightmare scenario—one that would instantly have me breaking out in a cold sweat and racing to my phone to panic-search Google for “ what to do if your toilet won’t flush ” quicker than you could say, “We have lift off!” Now imagine the same situation happening when you’re hundreds of thousands of miles away from not only the nearest plumber, but the nearest human being. That’s exactly what happened to the astronauts on the Artemis II during their historic lunar flyby this past weekend. Here at Family Handyman, we’ve seen our fair share of plumbing mishaps , but this is truly out of this world. What Happened to the Toilet on Artemis II? On Day 3 onboard the Artemis II’s Orion space capsule, mission specialist Christina Koch reported “a kind of burning heater smell” emitting from the ship’s toilet.…