Space Plumber

The Space Shuttle Discovery carrying seven astronauts roared into space orbit Saturday, carrying a giant Japanese lab to add on to the international space station. A proud moment indeed. Discovery also is ferrying another vital piece of equipment to the International Space Station; a toilet pump. Ah, the glory of space travel. Look, even miles above the Earth nature still calls. How may of us have been stuck out in the woods with no facilities? That's bad enough, imagine being stuck in space when you gotta go? For more than one week the Space Station's toilet has been on the fritz, and the three astronauts aboard have had to attempt to manually flush. With no gravity, it sounds like there may be all sorts of things floating around up there, Yuk. We all know how much a plumber charges for an emergency call. This one must carry one heck of a price tag.

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