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Two astronauts completing a spacewalk high above the earth during which they removed a broken cooling pump on the international space station. the damaged system has hampered operations aboard the orbitalant could be finished next week. here is tom jones, author of "sky walking, an astronauts memoir." tom, its good to see you. >> thanks, merry christmas to you. >> lets talk about this. this is a very critical mission for the astronauts on board of international space station. todays walk, spacew...

Risk takers here and fully prepeared and he said this is a feces it job they have trained for and prepared for in the past. >> phil keating, in miami. thank you very much. for more on the space walk, tom jones joins us on the phone. and author of sky walking and astronauts memior. >> hi, alisyn. exciting news. >> is it exciting or nerve wracking news. explain to the earthlings here how serious of a situation that is happening up there. >> it has two sides. if you are astronauts, it is exciting...

And the announcement caught us by surprise, i didnt know he was going in for surgery. >> steve: the former attitude, sky walking, an astronauts memoir, joins us from spartansburg. >> good morning. >> steve: a sad day for the astronaut corps, hes a legend. >> its a shock, i was not expecting this news, he had surgery a couple weeks back and everyone thought he was recovering, and the astronaut corps and i think the nation is just grieving at his loss. he is hes icon, a figure of the apollo astron...

Searching for materials when they dropped agent orange there years ago. that will be very interesting. patti ann: i wonder how long those things linger. nasas curiosity rover is hard at work on mars. it just sent back some of the sharpest pictures yet from the surface of the red planet. for many the most striking feature is how much these images look like earth. what does this say about the possibility of life on mars and the chance that maybe humans could live there some day. lets bring in form...

Program of flights. >> if you compare that to todays mood, what do you make of this? >> theres the sense that space flight is routine. that could be hardly further from the truth. its risky business for today. it requires real dedication and leadership to make sure our nation retains the leadership weve enjoyed for the last 50 years and i think weve seen in these last four years, a steady decline in our ability to do things in space. we have a space station with americans aboard right now but we...

Into space than ever before. tom jones joins me, hes a fox news contributor, and the author of sky walking, an astronauts memoir. welcome. this is called l2, a little post on the far side of the moon. is it feasible that we could build this and why would we want to? what would it give us. >> l2 is a nice gravitational lee stable point on the far side of the moon. be about 60,000 miles above the su surface. we could assemble spacecraft to go out farther into the solar system. we could get farther...

He was well-known forearms and drugs offenses. he was supposed to show up with a meeting with the police today, and failed to show up for the meeting, and all hell broke lose in what is a grenade attack that killed at least four people, 7 a people injured. this is a horrific situation. well stay on top of it. bill: the shuttle is granded, nasa calling a taxi to the final front tear, space-x set to become the first private company to dock a commercial spacecraft at the international space station...

Entitlement programs, plus the interest on the debt, will soak up all federal revenue, leaving nothing for the rest of government, which is why some lawmakers, jenna, are saying we have to reform these programs now. jenna. jenna: this must have been a really upbeat, fun report to research, right jim? walk away from every work every day feeling optimistic? >> yeah, thinking about trillions and trillions and trillions! jenna: $75 trillion question, and one we need to answer. jim angle, thank you v...