"NASA rushed Wednesday to get a special pump on board the shuttle Discovery to fix a balky toilet at the international space station, even as the launch countdown got under way.
The space station’s Russian-built toilet has been acting up for the past week. The three male residents have temporarily bypassed the problem, which involves urine collection and not solid waste.
Russian space officials are providing the pump to launch aboard Discovery on Saturday. The shuttle’s seven astronauts arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center a few hours ahead of the start of the countdown Wednesday afternoon."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24859800/
This sucks! I wouldn't want to know what it is like to be up in space with out a toilet. At least the part for the solid waste still works. You would think that NASA would upgrade their toilets a little more than once every seven years.
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