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System on the right-hand side of the space station. today they overcame that problem by reducing the pressure in the ammonia line, and that allowed them to remove the connector without experiencing that same leak, so they re over the hump. jenna: so doug and tracy doing a lot of work, how challenging is it to do this repair? well, they have a lot of practice underwater back on earth training to operate in the weightless environment of space, but there s a real challenge out there when you re doing these repair jobs. you re moving around an object that s pump packaged that s failed about the size of a refrigerator. it has a lot of mass or inertia, resistance to movement. and then you ve got to overcome the mechanical resistance. doug wheellock today had to pull this connector free from the pump with all of his physical strength using his feet strapped into a platform on the robot arm on the station, but it really took some shaking, some violent shaking of the connector, the kind of vi ....

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