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Enough ahead, between this space walk and the next one, they'll get everything done, get the station back to running order and back to business. >> chris, kind of bring us into the space walk and paint a picture for us. what's going through their minds, what's it like for them outside the international space station right now? >> you know, people don't realize the air around the world really evens out our temperature, but when you get above the atmosphere, in the direct sun, it's like a plus 150 degrees celsius, and in the shade, it's meanous 120 degrees celsius, so when they're in the sunshin...

Ask, nasa officials, what they want for christmas, they'll tell you, a working cooling pump. they'll have to wait until christmas day to see if they've got one. for the international space station astronauts, christmas will be a working holiday. three planned space walks. the first saturday, the last coming christmas morning. 220 miles above the earth, quite literally, high drama. astronauts rick and mike will spend about 20 hours in space removing the 780-pound failed cooling pump and replacing it with a spare. much of the time he will be dangling from the station's robotic arm. two pumps are...

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