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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Discovery docked at the international space station on Monday, delivering a mammoth lab..
Discovery carried Japan’s prized Kibo lab, a 37-foot-long, 16-ton scientific workshop. The seven shuttle astronauts and three station residents will combine forces to install the bus-size lab today.
The shuttle crew also brought a spare toilet pump for the orbiting outpost. The space station’s Russian-built toilet broke nearly two weeks ago — forcing the crew to perform manual flushes with extra water several times a day — and engineers hope the new pump will take care of the problem.
Astronaut Gregory Chamitoff got his first look at what will be his home for the next six months.