
Bet they'll...
... be relieved.
Coat Please.
Relief is at hand for the cross-legged ISS crew in the form of spares for the clapped-out Russian ASU toilet, which have been stowed aboard Space Shuttle Discovery due to blast off tomorrow. Technician loading ISS toilet spares onto Discovery The parts (seen here during loading), including a pump, will hopefully allow …
From what I understand, they think the problem is with the pump, and did in fact have spare pumps on board, two of them.
Whenever they fitted one of the spares, they failed after initial start up.
The key spare being sent up is another pump, but this time from a different manufacturing batch.
This seems a bit strange to me, even if the batch was faulty, the first one onboard seemed to work fine for a long time, I suspect there's something else wrong causing the pumps to blow, so if all they do is put in the fourth pump and it blows up, well then their really in deep sh <SLAM>