as the final space walkers of nasa s 30-year space program. installing a probe on the space station, officially ending its construction. commander mark kelly announcing assembly complete. no walk is scheduled for the final endeavour shuttle mission. wow. right now air force one is beginning its dissent into pola poland. the final leg of the president s four european nation trip tackling some of the biggest international issues with allies overseas. the president spent the morning in france wrapping up sessions at the g-8. live at the white house, following the trip of the president. president obama and medvedev did not see eye to eye on missile defense. now a topic with the leader of poland. reporter: an ongoing point of contention. you re right. the president has been talking about this, as has his predecessor, about building a missile defense system in eastern europe. russians are sensitive about
have been a spark from a fire some people use to make dinner. chile. the nation marking one year since one of the largest earthquakes in recorded history devastated its central region. the 8.8 magnitude quake killed more than 500 people. but protesters claiming the government has not done enough to rebuild. and that s a wrap on this fox trip around the world in 80 seconds. a computer crash is annoying for anybody. but when you are strapped to the end of a a 7-foot robotic arm and speeding around the earth at 17,000 miles an hour, it s a bit more than a minor convenience. it happened at the international space station today. two space walkers were doing home improvement outside when the computer controlling robotic arm shut down. that left one astronaut public defender on the end of an arm for nearly 30 minutes while holding 800-pound pump. of course, it doesn t weigh anything up there so not so bad. and astronauts eventually hooked up another work station and got the arm moving.
so the coordination is much more complex than that. here s the tricky part of that. it s all planned, they ve got those replacement modules on the space center. but here s the thing. they went out on saturday, and something didn t budge the way it was supposed to. so i was joking yesterday that it s almost you ve got to be with all that training, these space walkers, john, have got to be a bit like macgyver when they re up there. well, this is not just like macgyver, but actually, you have to be very versatile. and i think something else that s very interesting about this is that this was an unexpected repair as it s going along, and the procedures were set up and tested on the ground, just all of this has happened since july 1st. so there have been crews crews down in the neutral buoyancy facility at johnson who are doing the exact same thing that the astronauts up in space are doing. yeah, i was going to say, mae, this is john zarrella, i
ingenuity. space walkers had to pull a hammer out and pry bar to get the job done. seven hours later with some banging and pulling, they mapped to replace the cooling tank with a new one. this is rick and clayton s second space walk in three days. their shuttle discovery is scheduled to return it earth a week from tomorrow. one of san diego s most majestic views, a decade long tradition that many fear soon will drift out of sight. here is what we re talking about, san diego s hot air balloons have given tourists memorable rides for years now. local lawmakers are clamping down on the balloonists sansom feel it the past time may be grounded for good. casey, what s the story there? juliet, say it ain t so. beautiful san diego is known for many things, the famed gas land district, of course, the padres and the chargers and also the hot air balloon ride that were you talking about. the hot air weather mixed with
do the most difficult and important task in nasa s history: fix the hubble space telescope! a possible finger pitch hazard so be careful. thanks, mike. you re stuck inside of that suit. it s not quite barney s new york. it s a good suit but doesn t come with its own restroom or cafeteria. there you go. it is an athlete event. he is one of the seven astronauts highlighted in the i-max film hubble 3-d. and he s joining us now. you re an astronaut! i am. it s good to be here. put it there! he s wearing our space walkers, you saw in the footage, wear these big white suits because you re outside in the vacuum of space and need life support, be able to work as well. this is the glove part which gets connected to the arm of the suit. see the