ISS toilet on the blink

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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Jeff Findley wrote:
So, did NASA think the newer Russian toilet design would be better than
that used on Skylab? Or was the US just trying to save money here?


Remember how well our Shuttle toilet worked on its early flights. :-)

Yes I do. After developing and flying the Skylab toilet, NASA decided that
the shuttle needed an entirely different design. Unfortunately, the new
design didn't work very well. On top of that,
NASA spent even more money developing an EDO shuttle toilet because the
original shuttle toilet was unsuitable for the longer EDO missions.

I guess they just gave up on designing a US made ISS toilet and bought
Russian hardware instead.

Anyway the ISS toilet has now been fixed:

True.

Jeff
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