Thursday's Quote of the Day
10:20 UK time, Thursday, 5 June 2008
"Let's start using it" - Music to the ears of astronauts as the space station's broken urinal is finally fixed.
It's no easy thing getting a plumber in when circling the Earth. And so when the Russian-made toilet on the international space station broke, it took two weeks to repair. Spare parts had to be rushed from Moscow to Florida, to be blasted into space aboard the shuttle Discovery. Once repaired and tested, Russian crew member Oleg Kononenko announced that the job was done.
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