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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 astronaut's memoir." tom, it's good to see you. >> thanks, merry christmas to you. >> let's talk about this. this is a very critical mission for the astronauts on board of international space station. today's walk, spacewalk, took five hours and 28 minutes, so they completed it a little bit ahead of time for what th...

Thanks so much for joining us bright and early. >> my pleasure. >> here on terre firma. explain how this led to a problem with the astronaut almost drowning. >> the cooling pump, they have two cooling loops. one of the loops, the pump is not working. they have to replace the whole unit. they tried to do work-arounds but nothing seemed to get them happy with what's going on. the last time we did a space walk a few months ago, an italian astronaut had a problem with his space suit. >> had a problem. >> there was water coming in around his head. there was a leak. we never had this happen before. ...

Morning. get the nutrition in the morning. once you're in the space suit you are going a long time without eating. we have drinking water. we have a 32 ounce drink bag you can drink. but no food. >> you mention dangerous. and there is drama in this. this didn't seem to have a sense of urgency and now there is. >> they are creative people and they looked at hooking at a different valve to control the cooling pump and that didn't work. software fixes to control the pump and valve they were having

Just a few months after a nasa restaurant nearly drowned inside his space suit during a space walk two astronauts will start the first of three emergency space walks tomorrow at the international space station. they need to fix a broken cooling pump which would cause the space station to overheat. there are two more space walks scheduled for monday and christmas day. in july as i said about a gallon of cooling water leaked from an astronaut's space suit into his helmet and yes he nearly drowned. joining me is nasa restaurant michael masamino. good morning. >> hi, carol, good morning. >> as a f...

Karl pierson has written on his arm the latin phrase meaning the dye has been cast. he wrot the numbers and letters for rooms in the building including the library where he planned to kill a teacher. two astronauts will perform a series of space walks to repair a broken cooling pump on the international space station. in toronto, mayor rob ford danced along with other city council members to celebrate an agreement to promote a live music along with austin, texas. and since the austin city council ends their meetings with music, toronto did the same. morgan stewart who suffers from spinal...