[A Russian cosmonaut joined an astronaut from Belgium in a classic example of international plumbing cooperation on Monday and succeeded in fixing a faulty toilet on the international space station.
Station commander Gennady Padalka and flight engineer Frank De Winne swapped out some parts on the balky toilet and got it up running again a day after it broke down.
The toilet is one of two orbital commodes on the space station for the outpost's permanent six-person crew and seven visiting astronauts from the docked shuttle Endeavour. It flooded on Sunday, forcing Mission Control in Houston to ask the astronauts to put up an "out of service" sign on the potty door.]
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http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_space_thewritestuff/2009/07/space-plumbers-fix-balky-orbital-toilet.html
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