discussion. hey, right now look up in the sky, you know what you can t see? two nasa astronauts on a spacewalk of the international space station. it is happening right now. these are live pictures of the second of three space walks. let s take a good look. i don t know what i m saying but it s cool. that s a hand in space. a hand in space. a space hand. everything s cool when it s in space. that s his ipad right there. pushing it in. wow. same stuff you re doing right now. getting your purse ready. got to get ready. got to get out, put your books in the bag without the teflon gloves. they re doing some tricky cable work. we ve had astronauts on the show say how hard it is to work with the gloves and how much they have to practice. it s a big deal. they re preparing the space station to make sure the new capsules that are coming will be able to dock there. so this is important stuff. but let s watch for one more second. i ve reached inside. that s impressive isn t
that s what nasa is hoping after the successful test flight friday. orion traveling 36,000 miles from earth, speeds up to 20,000 miles an hour. after four and a half hours successfully crashing back into the pacific ocean. joining us now, clayton anderson, who worked as a nasa engineer and astronaut for 30 years. you had a chance to travel to space twice and do six space walks, that s amazing and fabulous. talk to me about the expectations for orion and why this represents a new era for nasa and space travel. the idea is we want to go to the red planet mars. in order to do that, we wanted to begin to take small steps towards the technology development that s required. the successful launch and return of orion yesterday is a great start in that direction for nasa. so the particular craft we re talking about would be the
president, reverend william barber, thank you very much. thank you so much. take care. you, too. better late than never? a christmas delivery finally arrived at the international space station for the six astronauts on board. a supply ship with 3,000 pounds of equipment, experiments and the long-awaited holiday gifts made it to the space station this morning. the shipment was delayed by the space walks, the frigid water and a solar storm. to remove makeup. and bright on schedule eye roller to instantly de-puff. for instant beauty sleep, no sleep required. new fresh effects from olay.
it looks like today s christmas eve space walk went smoothly. two astronauts introduce ad new palm. the pump will fix a cooling system and potential part of the space station. this was part two. the second emergency walk in four days. marks the second time nasa conducted this christmas eve space walk. let . we had a bump test out there, burnout and in bone-dry conditions during the space walk. inside the space suit in particular, finally after two previous space walks, of great concern where watt her gotten into hair space suits and that did not happen this time.
when it becomes a classic is when it moves into generational significance. when you have parents with children that it carries through, where it becomes a big part of the season itself. oh, i can t wait for that movie to come on. that s when it means it s christmas. only time will tell. and you will shoot your eye out. there you go, classic line. astronauts out on a crucial christmas eve spacewalk. we ll bring you the latest and talk with an astronaut here on earth about what s going on outside the international space station. he has done four spacewalks like this. that s a live picture. we ll be right back.