Astronauts Fix That Darn Toilet

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- To everybody's relief, astronauts fixed the toilet at the international space station on Wednesday and opened up a grand new science lab.

The toilet problem had fast become the most pressing issue of the mission, so much so that a spare pump was rushed from Moscow to Cape Canaveral last week for a last-minute ride aboard space shuttle Discovery.

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Astronauts Fix That Darn Toilet

Russian Oleg Kononenko put in the new pump, and the toilet started working normally again.

For two weeks, the three men living aboard the spac...

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