SpaceX needs to tame toilet trouble before weekend launch

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Crew 3 astronauts, from left, European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer, of Germany, NASA astronauts Tom Marshburn, Raja Chari, and Kayla Barron talk to the media aft arriving astatine the Kennedy Space Center successful Cape Canaveral, Fla., Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021. The ngo with a unit of 4 astronauts volition motorboat aboard a Crew Dragon spacecraft connected SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy's Launch Complex 39A aboriginal Sunday greeting to the International Space Station. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Posted at 7:21 PM, Oct 26, 2021

and past updated 2021-10-26 20:21:14-04

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX is resolving toilet spills successful its capsules earlier it launches different unit for NASA.

Liftoff is presently acceptable for aboriginal Sunday from Florida's Kennedy Space Center.

But SpaceX and NASA privation to marque definite the toilet occupation won't compromise the capsule that's astir to motorboat with 4 astronauts.

They besides are assessing the 1 that's been parked astatine the International Space Station since April.

During SpaceX's archetypal backstage formation past month, a conduit came unglued, spilling urine onto fans and beneath the floor.

The aforesaid occupation was precocious discovered wrong the capsule astatine the abstraction station.