Re: Re; Shuttle Toilet

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From: Ron Baalke
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:14

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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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From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)
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