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Article: Space station resident fixes toilet
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- June 4, 2008
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The international space station's toilet trouble appeared to be taken care of Wednesday after a Russian cosmonaut replaced a malfunctioning pump.
The space station's toilet broke two weeks ago. The problem _ confined to the urine side of the commode _ forced the orbiting outpost's crew of an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts to flush manually with extra water several times a day.
Space shuttle Discovery brought up a new pump for the toilet, as well as the space station's newest room, a $1 billion Japanese lab.
Oleg Kononenko spent more than two hours installing the new 35-pound pump and hoses, then running three tests of the toilet while he talked with ...