cooled down. give us a sense of how old are these suits and what are they meant to do? well, first of all, there was not a leak on the suit on i ve heard it reported that there was. but actually, this is just a normal system on board that interfaces, excuse me, interfaces with the vacuum of space. and that s one of the things that helps cool the astronauts. excuse me. but there was a misconfiguration on the switch in that particular case. ron you ve got what suzanne has got and that is a bit of a cough. we ll get back to you a little later. ron garan, thanks so much. we ll check in with you. as it unfolds. thank you so much. appreciate it. everybody s struggling with the coughing every commercial break. you re going to give it to me. millions of people around the
mastracchio as he prepares to fix a faulty pump on the international space station. so, what is this is christmas eve mission in space like? we wanted to know from someone who knows firsthand. we are joining by colonel ron guerin, a former astronaut with four space walks under his belt. it s so good to have you here. you actually handled that pump module that the torontos woastr worked on today. what are they doing here? they re switching out this pump which is responsible for a lot of the cooling thattings on the international space station. a lot of equipment both inside and outside the station require cooling. the way we do that on the space station is through ammonia. that ammonia is on the outside of the space station. so we have two redundant systems. the system that failed is on the starboard side of the space station and you know, we have a flow control valve in there that failed. so we have to replace the whole pump module, about 800 pounds.
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repair the international space station has been delayed until tomorrow. on saturday astronauts rick mastracchio and mike hopkins success dpli removed a broken pump but it needs to be replaced. the five-hour mission was actually cut short when that is trackio complained of cold feet after water leaked into the space suit. here to talk more about this is astronaut ron guerin joining us from houston. you know, you ve repaired that broken pump. how tough is that? you know, you ve got 35-year-old space suit to blame for this in a way. what kind of can problems does that is cause? well, you know, when we go out on a space walk, our space suits are really self-contained space ships. and there is a lot of moving parts, a lot of things that protect us for one thing but also make our job a little
underwear with tubes that go through it. in those tubes is cold water ta keeps us cold. and in the case of luca parmitano s suit, we think there s not a smoking gun yet, we don t know exactly what happened but we believe some of the coolant, the water used to cool him leaked out into the suit and ended up in the helmet. that became a very dangerous situation. they put a snorkel in now in case that happens. again, something that i wasn t aware of and a lot of people might not be, there aren t that many of these suits. it s not like you get online to amazon and get another one. no, exactly. we have have a limited number of suits on board. right now, the crew is basically mixing and matching and making sure that rick mastracchio s suit is properly sized for him when he goes out the door since they re switching into a different suit. ron guerin, thanks you so much. really appreciate it. my pleasure. we re also getting new information about the