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Bloomberg Top News -- The toilet works for solid waste; for liquid, the station's crew has rigged a ``urine bypass.'' The astronauts had briefly used the commode on Russia's Soyuz, a spacecraft docked at the station that has limited waste capacity.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration traced the likely problem to a Russian-built pump. The part failed in both the original toilet and a spare attached in the past week, Shireman said.

A third pump, from a different batch, was delivered from Russia this week and loaded on Discovery, along with part of the Japanese-built Kibo laboratory.
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