Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Shuttle Status for 05/08/89 (Forwarded)
Message-ID: <1989May11.203336.1395@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <25118@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <605@kl-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11 May 89 20:33:36 GMT

In article <605@kl-cs.UUCP> jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) writes:
>>                The orbiter's potty has been installed and functional checks
>>           are planned this week.
>
>Errrrr.  I suppose that means a whole load of engineers eating beans, curry
>and rhubarb. :-)

Don't laugh; you do realize, I trust, that the thing had to be tested in
free fall before being flown for the first time, and that meant doing it
in the KC-135, with only about 30 seconds of free fall available?  This
was actually the second time this issue came up, since the Skylab toilet
had the same problem.  Turns out that there are people with the slightly
unusual, um, ability required...
-- 
Mars in 1980s:  USSR, 2 tries, |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
2 failures; USA, 0 tries.      | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu