it s very small. the suit is now perfectly fine is so the suit it good. nasa never takes any chances. sure, replaced the faulty part in that suit and it checks out good, but in case this would happen again, very unlikely, they have an absorbing pad placed in the back of the helmet of each of the astronauts. mike is wearing the suit lucca was wearing last time. about absorb be pad behind his head and something like a snorkel. it s not a snorkel. it s a piece of tubing. in case the astronaut, water gets in there and needs air, he can lean forward and breathe very easily out of this snorkel device. they call is a snorkel but really it just looks like a tube. so those guys are confident in their suits and read to go do their space walks. i think we have video of the snorkel. while we get that video up, i want to ask you, mike, what was the water used for? was it used for cooling purposes
happened. the parody of the van damme ad makes use of graphic technology. not surprising there either. still funny, though. good job. thanks for staying with us this morning. the next hour of your new day starts right now. all right. we re looking at rick and mike. they are the two american astronauts who will be conducting a space walk here on the truss of the international space station. starts in about ten minutes. right? yeah. this is the first of three emergencies space walks to repair a critical cooling system coming just six months after that terrifying incident on one space walk, one astronaut s helmet filled with water nearly drowning him. nasa put in a special water absorbant padding and a snorkel device in to the helmets in case this drowning threat comes back. so as soon as the astronauts