Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Space station struggles with balky toilet- msnbc.com

Space station struggles with balky toilet- msnbc.com: "Long a subject of bathroom humor, these high-tech commodes must use fan-driven air flow instead of gravity to transport human waste away from a crew member’s body and into a sanitary receptacle. Early spaceflights didn’t even have this method, but relied on bags with sticky openings — and an emergency supply of such bags is indeed aboard the space station. "

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