well, i think it'd all burn up/vaporize on re-entry, so no smell problem at all!
-------------- Original message -------------- From: Astromancer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Imagine how badly the air would stink if there were millions of people in > space > using toilets that dumped into space? > > I am me, said the stranger, and I work for the ones who pay my fee...and > that's not you." - The Side Street Chonicles by C.W. Badie > > --- On Thu, 6/5/08, Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Astronauts Fix Space Station Toilet > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > Date: Thursday, June 5, 2008, 7:45 AM > > > > > > > Keith, to quote from an old song, "What goes up, must come down..." > > KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net wrote: It's what? Twenty-two thousand miles up in > orbit? Who needs a flush toilet: just run a long pipe to the outside, and let > the debris slip into space! I mean, how dangerous could crystallized, frozen > waste be? > > ------------ -- Original message ------------ -- > From: "brent wodehouse" <brent_wodehouse@ thefence. us> > http://www.space. com/missionlaunc hes/080604- sts124-kibo- space-toilet. > html > > Astronauts Fix Space Station Toilet > > By Tariq Malik > Senior Editor > > posted: 4 June 2008 > > HOUSTON - Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) appeared > to solve the orbiting lab's toilet troubles Wednesday as they prepared to > open a new Japanese laboratory for business. > > Space station flight engineer Oleg Kononenko replaced a failed pump in the > station's Russian-built commode in a fix that restored the space toilet's > ability to collect liquid waste. > > "I see airflow right away," Kononenko said after activating the system, > which uses flowing air in place of gravity to collect waste in > weightlessness. > > Three initial tests of the system appeared to be successful, with Russian > engineers giving the station crew the go ahead to use the repaired toilet > for now and report on its status. > > "Okay, let's start using it," Russian flight controllers told Kononenko > after two and a half hours of work. > > Built into the station's Russian Zvezda service module, the space toilet > [http://www.space. com/php/multimed ia/imagedisplay/ img_display. > php?pic=080529- iss-toilet- 00.jpg&cap= A+view+of+ the+toilet+ compartment+ > in+the+Zvezda+ Service+Module+ of+the+Internati onal+Space+ Station+% > 28ISS%29. > +Credit%3A+ NASA.+] > went on the fritz about 10 days ago. Station astronauts were able to make > partial repairs, though the fix required extra flush water and > time-consuming overhauls every three uses, mission managers said. > > "It's unfortunate that we're talking about toilets, but that really is the > life and the future of human exploration in space," said Kirk Shireman, > NASA's deputy station program manager, of today's space toilet surgery. > Even in space, the same mundane maintenance jobs found on Earth are > required, he added. > > NASA mission managers added a last-minute spare pump > [http://www.space. com/missionlaunc hes/080528- expedition17- space-toilet. > html] > to Discovery's cargo list before the shuttle's May 31 launch so astronauts > could try once more to repair the seven-year-old toilet. They also > included extra liquid waste receptacles in case the fix should fail. > > "We use these primarily for research purposes, but we can use those for > everyday use if you will," said Shireman, adding that with Discovery's > delivery, the station has enough bathroom supplies to last until the next > Russian cargo shipment later this summer. > > Commanded by veteran spaceflyer Mark Kelly, Discovery's seven-astronaut > crew is in the middle of a 14-day mission > [http://www.space. com/php/video/ player.php? video_id= 080528-sts124- > preview > ] to deliver Japan's giant Kibo laboratory, fix the station's toilet and > swap out one crewmember aboard the orbital outpost. > > Christening Kibo > > Later today, Discovery astronauts are expected to christen the station's > new tour bus-sized Kibo laboratory, a $1 billion new lab > [http://www.space. com/missionlaunc hes/080603- sts124-first- spacewalk- > update.html > ] installed during a Tuesday spacewalk. The spaceflyers will check their > shuttle's heat shield inspection boom, which was retrieved from a storage > berth on the ISS during yesterday's spacewalk, today to ensure it's in > working order. > > "We have a new 'hope' on the International Space Station," said astronaut > Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) after > helping install the new Kibo lab (whose name means "hope" in Japanese) on > Tuesday. > > Hoshide and his crewmates are scheduled to open the Kibo lab for business > today at about 4:52 p.m. EDT (2052 GMT) today. > > At 37 feet (11 meters) long and 14.4 feet (4.4 meters) wide, Japan's Kibo > laboratory is the largest single room ever launched to the ISS and is only > one of three segments that make up the station's entire Japanese space > research facility. It is designed to host a wide variety of internal and > external experiments to study fluid physics, materials science and > astronomy. > > "We're extremely happy to see the Kibo pressurized module attached to its > permanent location," JAXA's deputy Kibo operations project manager Tetsuro > Yokoyama said Tuesday. > > The 32,000-pound (14,514-kg) Kibo module follows an attic-like storage > room > [http://www.space. com/php/video/ player.php? video_id= 080326-STS123rew > ind1], > which astronauts delivered to the station in March, and includes two small > windows, an airlock and a robotic arm at one end to access an external > platform slated to launch next year. A control center in Tsukuba Space > Center, just north of Tokyo in Japan, will oversee the Kibo facility from > Earth. > > Hoshide told SPACE.com before Discovery's May 31 launch that he would > likely open the new module with some sort of speech, though what he > planned to say was still up in the air. > > Yokoyama said he expects Japanese station flight controllers and engineers > will be fairly busy during the module's activation today, but there is an > air of anticipation as well. > > "We will be waiting," Yokoyama said. > > NASA is broadcasting the planned launch of Discovery's STS-124 mission > live on NASA TV on Saturday. 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