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Toilet Trouble For Space Station
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Purple_Lee replied on Thu May 29, 2008 @ 7:37pm |
 Coolness: 239545 | International Space Station astronauts are eagerly awaiting the arrival of shuttle Discovery - it is bringing a new pump to mend their broken toilet.
The station's urine collection unit, as opposed to its solid waste unit, has been malfunctioning for several days. Nasa said it thought a separator pump was at fault, and the three male crew members were operating it manually. To make room for the new part, Nasa has had to remove other equipment from the shuttle, which launches on Saturday. "Clearly, having a working toilet is a priority for us," shuttle payload manager Scott Higginbotham said. The Discovery mission is the second of three to take up key components of the Japanese-built Kibo laboratory. Hand luggage Space urinals generally use jets of air to guide waste down a tube into a container, where it is then separated into liquid and gas. [ news.bbc.co.uk ] |
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