Astronauts to deliver pump for balky space toilet

May 28, 2008 By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer

(AP) -- NASA rushed Wednesday to get a special pump on board shuttle Discovery to fix a balky toilet at the international space station.

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