June 16, 2009

QOTD:

“ The menu of US astronauts is nutritious as well, but it looks more like a diet ration and presumably consists of exotic fruit, vegetables, sea food and low-fat meat. That is why, their waste is much softer. Engineers took account of these peculiarities when designing the sewage system for the ISS. It just so happens that the solid Russian waste ruined the US toilets in space.
Healthy diet of Russian cosmonauts ruins NASA’s space toilets - Pravda.Ru