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>> shepard: crew spends their time living and working just like astronauts on the space station except for weightlessness and the night's view. made up of four sealed compartments, including the living space the sides of a bus and areas for experiments and exercise. and the martian surface similarity is a room with sand on the floor. clearly the space agency spared no expense but the pretend astronauts played along, even putting on 66-pound space suits to go for a spacewalk today. and then planting the flags of russia, china, and the european space agency, then time to gather some samples from...

Landing part of an experiment of learning how humans willing cope with the long trip to the red planet. (inaudible) that was russian which is why we didn't understand it. two fake astronauts put on space suits and walked across fake soil and took fake samples from the floor of the room and carried out mock experiments. the volunteers have spent eight months locked away in a steel contraption meant to represent a spacecraft. russian, chinese, and european organizations are carrying out the experiment. of course, spending eight months locked in a tin can is not the same as traveling to another p...

Will disconnect these ammonia lines. they're under pressure. they're hoping that the connection hole if some of this ammonia should spray on to their space suits, then they'll have to spend a lot of time out there getting it off, making sure it's evaporated. so they cannot bring any of this toxic stuff back into the space station itself. so this is the crucial part here at the half way point of the space walk coming up. alex? >> okay. and, jay, we've speculated maybe seven hours. as you say, we're approaching the half way point. how long could they potentially stay outside? is that the maximum...

Company. i asked him what we stand to gain or lose with letting private enterprise compete in the game of transporting people to and from space. here's what he told me -- >> going forward, you know, i think it really is time to give the commercial guys a chance because going into low earth orbit, the technology has mat e matured, so nasa should push outside of low earth orbit, going to explore near earth astro roids going back to moon to test hardware for an eventual mission to mars, and they should be going further, developing new-generation space suits, rovers, habitats, things like that, lo...

Is down do not apply in the void of space. hand eye coordination is very difficult. but it's the most important skill to avoid multi-million-dollar mistakes. the first layer that the astronauts wear is this. it is the thermal undergarment which is basically what you would put on before you go skiing or snowboarding. the second layer that the astronauts wear is one of these. and now i'm actually starting to feel like a space man. this is the liquid cooling garment. so water will actually flow through this and essentially keep the astronauts from being overheated. and the third layer and the fin...