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Repair the international space station has been delayed until tomorrow. on saturday astronauts rick mastracchio and mike hopkins success dpli removed a broken pump but it needs to be replaced. >> the five-hour mission was actually cut short when that is trackio complained of cold feet after water leaked into the space suit. here to talk more about this is astronaut ron guerin joining us from houston. you know, you've repaired that broken pump. how tough is that? you know, you've got 35-year-old space suit to blame for this in a way. what kind of can problems does that is cause? >> well, you kn...

Walk? joining me now is chris hatfield. he's a fompler commander of the international space station. he's also the author of the guide to life on earth. we talked about that last month with your book and your survival guide. so nasa says that they are delaying this next space walk so that they can make some adjustments to a new suit for one of the astronauts. so what happened to the suit that was worn yesterday? it was good enough yesterday, wasn't it? now what? >> you know, we call them space suits, but they're really like one-person spaceships. you really want everything to work perfectly. i...

Second. when you paint this dad? 30 years ago? >> 1973. >> every christmas he unrolls it and just scotch-tapes it to the wall. my mom's the artist in the family now. >> so this is a family of artists? the choes are devout christians, not unusual in the korean community, but they are unusual in that they're both artists of a sort. jane treats the house like an ongoing art projects. drawing sunglasses on family pictures. stapling angels to dave's paintings that have hung in the white house. adorns wreaths with happy meal toys, sticker bombing the kitchen with birds, cows space ships. she is rele...

Drawing sunglasses on family pictures. stapling angels to dave's paintings that have hung in the white house. adorns wreaths with happy meal toys, sticker bombing the kitchen with birds, cows space ships. she is relentlessly energetically and inarguably creative. >> she brainwashed me from the time we were kids. she was like you're the best artist in the world. >> you are. >> oh, thanks, but now she's telling me she's going to be the best in the world. she's very competitive. she says she's going to destroy me. >> awesome. >> food is ready. >> so you want to explain what everything is, mom? >>...

One person space ships. you are completely separate from the space station. it has to be as reliable as we can make it. and there are three onboard. you build them out of pieced parts. everyone's arms and legs are different lengths. you start with the core and built t build the suit. one showed a sign that it get water into the evaporator on the back. so just to be good and safe because they only probably need one more spacewalk. if things go well they will be able to get everything down priv to christmas. they want to have the two best ones. >> best is good. i think everybody agrees on that