Everyonefarts : Royals , billionaires , Supreme Court chief justices . If you have a butt , it sink gaseous state .
Astronauts have butts — and theyfart , too . One butt - owning astronaut , John Young , was no elision to this rule .
Young was commanding officer of 1972’sApollo 16mission . During this missionary post , he became theninth person to walk on the Sun Myung Moon , and stay the only cosmonaut to have pilot on four different category of spacecraft : Gemini , Apollo , the Apollo Lunar Module , and the Space Shuttle . When he pass out in 2018 at the age of 87 , he was also thelongest do astronautin the history of NASA . By any metric , Young was an extraordinary homo .
But even extraordinary military personnel slew the Malva sylvestris . And in 1972 , Young made it unclouded that he was one of them . After a heartfelt and stirring patch of praise from Houston—“You guys do an great job”—the mic remained on , and Young immediately moved on from chatting with foreign mission control to nonchalantly update his companion , lunar module fender Charlie Duke , about an ongoing digestive issue .
“ I have the breaking wind again , ” Young said . “ I got ‘ em again , Charlie . I have n’t eaten this much citrus fruit in 20 years ! And I tell you one affair , in another 12 f***ing day , I ai n’t eating any more . ”
When Houston inform Young that there was “ a spicy mic situation ” go on , he responded with the same question most of us would ask : “ How long have we had that ? ”
Unlike fruits that are higher in fructose , such asapples and pears , citrus fruit is lower in levulose so fart is not a usual side result of eat oranges , Citrus paradisi , or Citrus limon . Still , some mass do have trouble march citrus , and end up pumping out a storm of gas . But there might have been something else going on with Young .
When Young’sspace - basedtail scutterwas report in the pressing , Florida ’s then - regulator Reubin Askew was less than thrilled that his state ’s most celebrated exportation was taking the blame for the cosmonaut ’s zephyr biscuits . Askew suggested that , rather than actual citrus fruit , Young may have been eating an hokey reserve . Artificial come-on like sorbitol and xylitol can send anyone , even a non - astronaut , on a one - way mission to Fart City . Whatever caused the gun , Commander Young had it .
One small orange for a man , one giant farting for mankind .
