back of it is actually a jet pack just in case their little safety line broke and they went tumbling off into space like you saw in gravity. they could pull down this handle, a joystick pops out, and then they could actually fly their jet pack. more like a parachute, really, just to get you back safely and grab onto the station. you sure don t want to use it, but it s nice to have it just in case. oh, i bet so because you ve done spacewalks yourself, and you were actually blinded in a spacewalk? tell us about that. yeah, on the inside of the suit, there s a bunch of different chemicals for removing car done dioxide from the air you re breathing and also just for cleaning the visor that you re looking through. and some of the chemicals got in one of my eyes. and without gravity, tears don t fall, right? so you just get this no way to clear you can t rub your eye, and eventually the big contaminated tear went across the bridge of my nose into my other eye, and both my eyes were
that is kind of cool. new experiments underway on the international space station to help astronauts eat their vegetables. phil fe phil keating is live. reporter: red, romaine lettuce grown on board the space station comapartment called veggie. that is window washing there. sometimes the glamorous life of space walks involve washing the wind windows. that is the russian astronauts there rigging new equipment and doing a photographer inspection of the exterior of the space station. scott kelly tweeting out a lettuce selfie this morning. kelly planted the seeds last month, they grew and are ready to eat. sometime in the next hour the
reporter: all four on the launch america team is experienced having flown in shuttles and done several space walks. any trepedidation? reporter: i asked about that and in the past nine months two times commercial cargo ships exploded most recently with spacex exploding over florida. you expect a hiccup here and there and i am happy some of them are happening with cargo vehicles and we have testing out the systems before putting people on them. reporter: and a talked with a spacex representative on friday and they are trying to pinpoint
if one day they can vote in a free election. after the castro brothers depart it s expected that eventually, dare i say it capitalism will envelope the island and let the good times roll. fidel at 88 is an old pan with his memories. like that night at harvard when thousands cheered. perhaps they will dull the pain of realizing his failure. nasa releasing footage that s out of this world. astronauts on the international space station using go pro cameras to capture space walks like never before. the breath-taking video shows them prepping the station for commercial spacecraft. almost like you re there. yeah. the classic scenario of cowboy versus authority. but our next story gives it a 21st century twist. the reaction is straight out of the lone star state. mayo? corn dogs? you are so outta
purchase any new verizon wireless smartphone or tablet from comcast. visit comcast.com/wireless to learn more. jenna: right now nasa astronauts are out on a space walk on a mig to get the international space united nations ready for future arrivals by u.s. commercial spacecraft. we re following the story live from the miami bureau. a busy morning and speedy work. 260 miles up above the earth as nasa prepares to end the reliance on the russians to get our astronauts up to the space station. the space walk started just before 7:00 a.m. it will probably end early after the most complicated cable run of the space station 16-year history. astronauts playing space walking cable guys for about nine hours over two space walks. a third space walk scheduled for sunday. later this year two new