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Called a success. >> i think i'm ready to leave this work site. >> okay, copy that, rick. >>ing nasa hopes by christmas, all the work will be done. leaving the astronauts to celebrate safely back on the space station. now, these are live pictures from space. how cool is that to see this all happening it realtime? >> it's amazing. >> we love this stuff. >> we'll be continuing to watch this happen throughout the day. we know that they are again, trying to hook up this the spare pump to the international space station. it seems like things are back on electric. >> alina, what does that do whether...

Ahead of the timeline right now. so, they should be done for sure by about 3:00 eastern time at the latest. alison? >> although this looks like dangerous work. they're not in any danger. why was nasa calling this an emergency repair? >> you know, it's called an emergency repair because it is a cooling system. and you have to be able to keep the space station cool. now, there are several other systems also cooling systems, but they want all of them working. any one down means they have to reroute power and do things that they don't like to do. perhaps even shut some systems down. so, this was i...