The international space station's lone toilet is broken, leaving the crew with almost nowhere to go. So NASA may order an in-orbit plumbing service call when space shuttle Discovery visits next week.
Until then, the three-man crew will have to make do with a jury-rigged system when they need to urinate.
While one of the crew was using the Russian-made toilet last week, the toilet motor fan stopped working, according to NASA. Since then, the liquid waste gathering part of the toilet has been working on-and-off. Fortunately, the solid waste collecting part is functioning normally. Russian officials don't know the cause of the problem and the crew has been unable to fix it.
Its kind of slow here so i thought this would make some people laugh. Talk about a nasty problem to have in space. Man those Russian toilets.....
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big deal ... Uranus has been out there without a toilet for billions of years and you dont her it complaining. For a "Gassie Giant" youd think it would be a real big problem. I guess thats where the 
