NASA rushed Wednesday to get a special pump on board shuttle Discovery to fix a balky toilet at the international space station.
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Cosmonaut-plumber Oleg Kononenko tackled the critical job of fixing the sole toilet aboard the International Space Station on Wednesday, with apparently successful results.
... an issue as one might expect.
In fact, installing water-guzzling appliances such as toilets can actually promote unsanitary conditions when the effluent is discharged untreated into once-clean rivers ...
Equipped with buttons, gadgets, and widgets, Japan's hi-tech toilets can baffle the uninitiated.
NASA needs worker urine to develop a anew space toilet.
If two-ply toilet paper is good, then three-ply tissue must be better. At least that's what toilet-paper researchers in northeastern Wisconsin hope.
The International Space Station's master toilet is on the fritz again.
... circumstances.
"Water problems, caused largely by an appalling absence of adequate toilets in many places, contribute tremendously to some of the world's most punishing problems, foremost among them ...
... going to the toilet on their own" he says.
"It is important that parents check out the toilet seats in advance, not to mention the ones they have in their own homes, and accompany their children if ...
Doctors have expressed considerable concerns about the growing trend for heavy wooden and ornamental toilet seats after a number of male toddlers were admitted with crush injuries to their penises.
Space station astronauts hooked up their brand new space toilet this week sans door.
Obviously flush with cash, the Manitoba government is offering a $50 rebate to anyone in the province who buys a high-efficiency toilet on Feb. 21.
... , transportation, and the Internet, the one item we use everyday, multiple times a day - the ubiquitous toilet - has remained in the technological dark ages for centuries here in the U.S.
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NASA may consider putting comedian Stephen Colbert's name on a space toilet.
... that he is not even allowed to use his American
colleagues' exercise bike - or his toilet.According to Gennady
Padalka, commercial squabbles on earth are starting to compromise
morale in space. For ...
