托福阅读背景:国际空间站排污装置罢工
2013-12-06 11:30 | 编辑:川外教育 来自:未知It's bad enough when the toilet gets clogged at home; it could be a lot more serious in space, especially with visitors on the way.
NASA said Wednesday that the liquid waste handling function of the toilet at the International Space Station (ISS) had malfunctioned the day before and that the three astronauts aboard had to use the toilet at the Soyuz capsule moored at the station.
While one of the crew was using the Russian-made toilet last week, the toilet motor fan stopped working after “it made a loud noise”, according to NASA. Since then, the liquid waste gathering part of the toilet has been working on-and-off.
Fortunately, the solid waste collecting part is functioning normally.
Eventually the two Russians and one American at the orbiting station were able to fix up a "urine bypass" on the ISS toilet, located on the Zvezda module, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said.
NASA spokeswoman Nicole Cloutier told reporters that the space shuttle Discovery, scheduled to arrive at the ISS Monday with seven astronauts aboard, would be carrying toilet parts to help repair the station's prickly plumbing....
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