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Referred to he's working the robot arm. there's three russian crew mates up there as well and they are helping out. they help with getting the suits ready and so on and you have the control team on the ground in houston. everyone in the krol center, the instruct jobs flight controls, everyone. it's a gigantic team to help do this, the spacewalk the right way. >> yeah. and let's take about 15 seconds and listen in because you can hear what they are saying. stand by one second, mike. >> okay. >> okay. hopper two handed tier. pull forward and depress the button then. >> mike, walk us through a

Experiencing, particularly for mike hopkins, because this is his very first space walk. >> you've trained these astronauts and trained for the actual logistics of doing this and fixing this part, but what if something goes wrong? how do you train for the emergency? >> we constantly train -- in fact, when we train to do space walks, a lot of what we're doing is training how to work around problems. you come up with a lot of problems in the training facilities. one, for example, our big pool. the nuell tral buoyancy laboratory, a big pool we practice our space walks in, we commonly across proble...

Two cooling systems, one goes down, that's okay, we still have another one, but you want to get it back up. bill: can you fix it with a says walk? >> well, they're trying to figure out if that's necessary. right now there's a valve that's involved that is causing some trouble for them. if they have to replace the whole unit, they practice doing that on the ground. you've got two very good space walkers, very experienced astronaut. mike hopkins is a rookie astronaut, but he's a great space walker. i've been in the pool with him, so i think the space station's in good hands. if they have to repl...