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Get in the high 30 degree celsius. and because you have this cooling, you're worried about inside the cabin and the crews getting heated up. you also worry about humidity inside and the hardware operating. those temperatures would be in an area that would be not healthy for the crew. >> so if this crew needed to evacuate the space station and the damaged spacecraft was their only option how would they navigate these hazards. >> well, the spacecraft does have a number of redundant systems in it. so even if the main flight computers were to be degraded, they could still -- there is still downloa...

Without that coolant temperatures insided cabin could climb above 100 degrees during a return flight potentially overheating flight computers. russian space officials determined the damaged craft is unsafe to flyntiay raing its crew, cosmonauts and nasa astronaut, russia is fast tracking a replacement ship to launch in february. >> this has certainly never happened before in the history of the space station. >> cbs news space analyst bill harwood. >> it'sthey don't have spare sos ready to go in a moment. they're going to launch the new soyuz with no one on board and then the crew that's curren...

Does it come down to guts? what is? >> a little bit of everything. it is mental and everything. you want to visualize courses. jumping out of a helicopter at 8,000 feet. of course you have a lot of nerves up there and everything. then, yeah, a lot of training, a lot of preparation and making sure you're fit for the job. bill: andy, how do you train for this? what do you do? >> jump out of airplanes. i make probably 1000 jumps every single year. i've been doing that since i was 16 years old. i have about 20,000 skydives now. bill: wow. >> and probably made bp five to 700 wingsuit jumps every ye...

Approach to the original runway. then, once flight computers have gotten the airbus into position, he'll go manual and circle to land at the new runway, runway 5. flight 5148 begins its descent. they plan to land in 15 minutes, but there's growing tension and a growing problem in the cockpit. the captain is getting behind his breakthrough jet. >> getting behind the airplane is a widely used statement to say that the pilot's thinking of what's going on is behind where the airplane actually is. >> at 7:13, the captain switches to manual even earlier. otherwise he'll have to wait for three other ...

Then, once flight computers have gotten the airbus into position, he'll go manual and circle to land at the new runway, runway 5. flight 5148 begins its descent. they plan to land in 15 minutes, but there's growing tension and a growing problem in the cockpit. captain hekay is getting behind his breakthrough jet. >> getting behind the airplane is a widely used statement to say that the pilot's thinking of what's going on is behind where the airplane actually is. >> at 7:13, the captain switches to manual even earlier. otherwise he'll have to wait for three other jets scheduled to take off from...