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Old May 27th 08, 06:32 PM posted to sci.space.station
Bash
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Apparently it's no joke and could impact the increase in planned crew
size:-

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24841375/

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Old May 28th 08, 08:41 AM posted to sci.space.station
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Well the writer avoided the well known joke about this sort of thing,
which being a childish person, I was disappointed by.

Headline could have read:
Space toilet malfunction still a mystery, Astronauts have little to go on.

Bean serious though, it seems that this is one device which has always had
problems, by which I mean a really simple bit of hardware to allow human
waste to be got rid of safely seems to have been always being developed.

Brian

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Apparently it's no joke and could impact the increase in planned crew
size:-

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24841375/



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Old May 29th 08, 07:56 AM posted to sci.space.station
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On 28 May, 08:41, "Brian Gaff" wrote:
Well the writer avoided the well known joke about this sort of thing,
which being a childish person, I was disappointed by.

Headline could have read:
Space toilet malfunction still a mystery, Astronauts have little to go on.

Bean serious though, it seems that this is one device which has always had
problems, by which I mean a really simple bit of hardware to allow human
waste to be got rid of safely seems to have been always being developed.

Brian


I thought about it but it would have been a crap joke ;-) That and
the problem seems to be with urine collection, not the aforementioned.

Evidently NASA have sourced a spare part from Russia, a rush job to
launch on Discovery next week hopefully.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24859800/

Maybe the regulars can help but the report mentions offloading some
wrenches, a spare part for the space station’s oxygen generator, and a
microbe-killing device for use in the European space lab. Asides from
cabin space are weight margins tight on this mission?

Bry
 




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