saturday s first of the scheduled cooling system repair job space walks went so well overall that they actually may be able to prevent christmas day s planned space walk. the astronauts were able to do more than planned on saturday. they spent 5 1/2 hours remaining that faulty ammonia pump that weighs about 800 pounds on earth but light as a feather in space. they spent 5 1/2 hours doing that. neither experienced any water in their helmets any time around so the emergency snorkels they had sewed in their suits were not needed. after the space walk, water may have been developing in the back side of his space suit that was noticed and happening during the repressurizing of the air locks. just to be safe, nasa will have him wear a backup space suit so they re taking an extra day to prepare for that. today s space walk will now be happening tomorrow. jon: and now it s looking like
let s bring our guests in now. rick, and mike are the astronauts. we ve got john zarrella, with us, also mike massimino, who joins us to talk us through what s happening. i want to start with you, john. tell us what s happening now. we re just a few minutes in to this. yeah, that s it. right now the astronauts have just exited the air lock there and they are going through some preps and check outs. mike massimino knows all about this from the space walks that he s done, and ultimately what s going to happen is on the end of the robotic arm, one of the astronauts, for much of this day. this first day out there while they re working, what they re going to be doing is preparing to change out that whole cooling pump box and put the new one in, but today is just disconnecting wiring and hoses and pumps and electrical connectors so that they can, then, get to that box,
upside-down right now, but i guess it doesn t matter in space. normally upside-down. they ve come out of the air lock. been out maybe 30, 40 minutes at this point, and they ve checked out their suits. everything is working fine. they ve set up their work site, and now are getting to work throughout their procedure. still going through some of the setup phases and then will start preparing the old pump module to come out and the new one to be ready to go in. so they re not going to do that exchange today but they re getting a lot of prep work done in today s space walk. they ll be there 6.5 hours today. a long time. that s the plan. yeah. you plan these things so they re 6.5 hours and sometimes if things go really well, you come in a little early. if things don t go well, you come in a little late. the target is 6.5 hours and i think these guys are running a little ahead. this is a very strong space walking team out there. rick mastracchio has been six before.
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