Spacemen unpack new toilet
China Daily | Updated: 2008-11-18 07:51
Space Shuttle Endeavour Commander Chris Ferguson (center) greets International Space Station Commander Mike Fincke (right) as ISS flight engineer Yury Lonchakov looks on after the opening of the hatches between the two spacecraft in this view from NASA TV on Sunday. Reuters |
Astronauts aboard the international space station and the newly arrived shuttle Endeavour yesterday started unpacking a new toilet and a contraption that purifies urine and sweat into drinkable water at the orbiting outpost.
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