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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — To everybody’s relief, astronauts fixed the toilet at the international space station Wednesday and opened up a grand new science lab.
The toilet problem had fast become the most pressing issue of the mission, so much so that a spare pump was rushed from Moscow to Cape Canaveral last week for a last-min ute ride aboard space shuttle Discovery.
The door to the new billion- dollar Japanese lab — named Kibo, or hope — was swung open late Wednesday afternoon, a day after its installation at the space station.
