office, people assumed i would be at war very quickly. and people did have that fear, but by getting into the room with the bad guys and trying to avoid war, it is better to not be judged by results if he can be a control valve on putin, this will be a very good thing for putin and the world. it will be hard to know because there will be no record of it. and maybe we have been told an interpreter. we don t know if that is from the state department, or a russian interpreter. we don t know what the president will come away with. he has not called putin a bad guy. he doesn t necessarily think he is. here is where his mind-set was
sounds like it s a serious situation but not life threatening. nasa described it to me as urgent but not an emergency. no lives in danger. six astronauts on board. there are two major coolant loops on the space station, about the size of a football field. the trouble appears to be with a valve, a control valve. they don t know if it s an easy software fix or if it s going to require a space station. originally yesterday afternoon they were saying to me we might have to do a space walk within one or two days. now they are saying maybe not so much, maybe a week or two. you heard them say we re in a good configuration. they think they can maintain what they are doing now. they are powering down nonessential systems to conserve energy and not overheat the station. if there is a space walk, it
equipment cool. they believe the problem is pinpointed but it will take several days before they know for sure. we think it s a control valve inside the module itself. if necessary, we can have the crew do an eva or space walk and change out the full control valve. this summer a space walk had to be cut short after one of the astronaut s helmets started filling with water. the crew injured but the walk lasted an hour and a half instead of more than six hours it was scheduled for. at that time crews were prepping the station for the arrival of a russian laboratory module. nasa officials tell us if it s not a physical hardware issue, it could be a software issue. if that s the case they could upload a patch and it could
american astronauts that are currently doing work up on the iss here is what happened. yesterday a flight control teams noticed that a colder than normal temperature reading was coming from inside one of the space station s cooling pumps, so the pump was shut down as a precaution and now operating on just one. the iss has two of these giant cooling loops as they re called. they circulate ammonia through them to keep computers and equipment cool. if the problem is linked to a faulty control valve which scientists say is likely, the crew may have to do what nasa refers to as eva, or extra vehicular activity. simply put, a spacewalk, to repair it but that is no small feat according to nasa s administrator. any eva worries me. you know, we, evas are not trivial and the one thing we really, when i talk to the flight crews after we, every time we do one of these emergency evas, what the folk