Astronauts Make Robot
March 14, 2008
A PAIR of spacewalking astronauts started putting together a robot outside the international space station early today despite a problem getting power to the giant machine.
The trouble cropped up yesterday and had engineers scrambling for a solution before Richard Linnehan and Garrett Reisman ventured out on the first spacewalk of shuttle Endeavour’s space station mission.
The astronauts got a Japanese storage compartment and then turned their attention to the Canadian robot, named Dextre.
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