Finally, urine recycler passes astronauts’ test
After days of tinkering, space station skipper reports success: ‘Yippee!’
The whole quote from the skipper was 'Yippee! Now we can peepee'
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Astronauts aboard the orbiting shuttle-station complex got a double dose of good news Tuesday: A rotary joint that they spent days cleaning and lubricating appeared to be working normally again for the first time in more than a year, and a urine-recycling machine finally was behaving.
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Had this fix not been successful, it would have been a real pisser.