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- From: mike@starburst.umd.edu (Michael F. Santangelo)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: DC-1 and the $23M NASA Toilet
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 22:37:08 GMT
- Organization: University of Maryland, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
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- matthew@phantom.gatech.edu (Matthew DeLuca) writes:
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- >In article <schumach.726431013@convex.convex.com> schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher) writes:
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- >>Uhhh... why didn't NASA just reuse the Skylab toilet on Shuttle?
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- >Probably because nobody wanted to go to Australia and pick up all the pieces.
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- >:-)
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- Oh, that was cruel. :-)
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- But, let me ask (since I don't know the specifics): how well did the
- Skylab toilet work and what does the new $23M Shuttle toilet do that
- the Skylab didn't do?
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- There is also a reference to the Gemini program in this thread, what did
- they do?
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- Thanks.
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