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- From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Re; Shuttle Toilet
- Date: 11 Jan 1993 22:14 UT
- Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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- In article <321010b68@ofa123.fidonet.org>, Wales.Larrison@ofa123.fidonet.org writes...
- >.......On shuttle, you couldn't dump the
- >wastes overboard without the possibility of contaminating anything
- >in the payload bay, and you didn't have the large empty tank to use.
- >(The shuttle dumps waste water overboard, but is very careful about
- >when and how it dumps the water from the holding tanks).
-
- Which reminds me, yellow stains were found on LDEF, the long duration
- satellite that was in Earth orbit for 5 years. The stains were analyzed
- and determined to be human urine. It was apparently discharged from the
- Space Shuttle (I believe).
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