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A £30m call-out fee for toughest plumbing job in the universe

The most expensive plumbing call-out in history. Each launch of the Space Shuttle costs about £30 million, and last night, as the Discovery docked with the International Space Station, it carried one vital part – a replacement pump for the orbital outpost’s toilet.

The shuttle Discovery floated into the station with these words: “Someone call a plumber?”

“Yeah, we got it,” the shuttle commander, Mark Kelly, assured station flight engineer Garrett Reisman as the two greeted each other in orbit. Read on…..

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