Re: DC-1 and the $23M NASA Toilet

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From: Richard A. Schumacher
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 18:23

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>Unnecessarily, if so, since the solutions developed for Skylab actually
>worked pretty well.  (Notably, the Skylab toilet worked.)  For rather
>longer than a week, too.

Uhhh... why didn't NASA just reuse the Skylab toilet on Shuttle?

One gets the impression that the number of competent people
at NASA fell below critical mass quite some time ago...

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