In ‘Complicated’ Mission, Shuttle to Take Big Lab to Space Station
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After being rushed in from Russia, a toilet pump was loaded into space shuttle Discovery on Thursday just in time for this weekend's liftoff to the international space station, where the lone commode is acting up. (article 2)
NASA's Mission Management Team met today to review launch processing and cleared the shuttle for launch on the year's third shuttle mission. (article 3)
To make room for the new part, Nasa has had to remove other equipment from the shuttle, which launches on Saturday. (article 5)
A lone NASA employee carried the pump on a commercial flight from Russia to Florida, arriving on Wednesday night, NASA said. (article 1)
While one of the crew was using the Russian-made toilet last week, the toilet motor fan stopped working, according to NASA. (article 6)
Russian mission control told the crew - Russian Cosmonauts Sergey Volkov and Oleg Kononenko, and Garrett Reisman to use the toilet on the Soyuz capsule that is attached to the station as a lifeboat. (article 7)
The space shuttle Discovery is set to deliver the International Space Station's biggest room, in what its commander calls "a complicated, busy mission" that is scheduled to begin on Saturday. (article 8)
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Source articles
- Space shuttle makes room for toilet fix (cbc.ca, 05/29/2008, 181 words)
- Toilet pump loaded aboard space shuttle (boston.com, 05/29/2008, 265 words)
- Update: Russian toilet parts delivered; weather still 80 percent 'go' for Saturday launch (CBS News, 05/29/2008, 1592 words)
- Astronauts to deliver pump for balky space toilet (boston.com, 05/28/2008, 431 words)
- Toilet trouble for space station (BBC News, 05/29/2008, 303 words)
- Space station crew faces new crisis: broken toilet (cbc.ca, 05/28/2008, 297 words)
- New Challenge for Space Station Crew (nytimes.com, 05/28/2008, 451 words)
- In ‘Complicated’ Mission, Shuttle to Take Big Lab to Space Station (nytimes.com, 05/27/2008, 1091 words)
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