NASA Spacesuit Malfunction Delays Space Station Repairs
An issue with the life support system has astronauts worried.

The busy week ahead on the international space station, astronauts are gearing up for another dangerous space work to finish fixing that broken cooling system. But first, they have a serious wardrobe malfunction to take care of. ABC's Mike explains.
In a crippled international space station, a successful Christmas eve spacewalk will be the best gift of all for the six astronauts on board.
Station, Houston with you, hope everybody had a good day.
A Saturday spacewalk brought them half-way to that goal. American spackwalkers R and Mike removed a broken 780 pounds coolant pump whose failure jeopardize the operation of the space station.
Don't let they go, that's a stocking stuffer.
But a malfunction in astronaout's M suit.
My toes are quite cold. forced the postponement of a second spacewalk scheduled to complete the repairs.
We want to dry that suit out overnight.
For the second spacewalk in a row, water in the spacesuit was an issue. Just to be safe, the astronauts would use a back-up suit.
It's their life-support system, so somebody on the ground, the team on the ground is making a big plan to put that new suit together.
This is the suit they are wearing, behind the glass in the display of the Johnsoon Space center. At 35 years old, it could be a museum piece, but NASA always facing budget constraints must make old things work.
We've done over 11700 hours of spacewalking, so I think it was just a small blip in the road that just happen to catch us.
And so NASA and the astronauts on board the space station have this Christmas hope that those aging space suits are gifts that keep on giving.