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Discovery yesterday docked successfully with the International Space Station at 18:03 GMT, with mission STS-124 astronauts boarding at 19:36 GMT (see pic). Discovery crew greeted by Expedition 17 members aboard the ISS. Pic: NASA The shuttle arrived bearing mission specialist Greg Chamitoff, due to join the exisiting …

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  1. Lyndon Hills
    Coat

    Sub Head?

    Surely should be 'Desperately needed space shit later today'?

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  2. vale
    Go

    They certainly do look happy...

    to receive those spare parts.

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  3. Graham Bartlett
    Happy

    "relieving flight engineer Garrett Reisman"

    With spares for the loo, finally they can *all* relieve themselves!

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  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Space Walk

    Is one of the space walks to help clear the back "log" from the toilet after they have fixed it?

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  5. Steve Foster
    Joke

    Caption Competition Entry

    ISS holds Russian "bear hugging" competition to prioritise Discovery toilet visitation rights.

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  6. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Hold it

    Those are magnetic boots they're wearing if I'm not mistaken.

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  7. Adrian Esdaile

    Photo caption?

    Is the photo a web-cam pic of the queue and resulting scrum for first to use the new bog?

    No idea what icon for this, so... none!

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  8. Anonymous Coward
    Jobs Horns

    Big Hug...

    ...nice to see you, but please don't squeeze to hard. I am absolutely bursting for a cr**p.

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  9. Chris Taylor
    Happy

    Need to

    keep their sh!t wired tight whilst on the ISS

    I always wondered why all america right stuff kind of guys felt the need to keep their sh!t wired tight in certain situations.

    Now all those b movie cut n paste dialogues make sense

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