Nine-year-old Malaysian boy wins Nasa challenge, invention may be used in next lunar mission

Zyson created the "Spacesuit Lunar Toilet", accomplishing the Nasa mission brief for a compact toilet that can operate in both microgravity and lunar gravity.

PETALING JAYA: He’s only nine but Zyson Kang Zy Shun is the inventor behind a next-generation device which Nasa has been looking for to take on its next mission to the moon.

Zyson, a Year Three pupil from SJK (C) Pin Hwa 1, Setia Alam, created the “Spacesuit Lunar Toilet”, accomplishing the Nasa mission brief for a compact toilet that could operate in both microgravity and lunar gravity.