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March 16, 2008

Spacewalking Astronauts Install Arms on ISS Robot
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3.3 meters long and will be used in future maintenance and service
tasks at the space station





Mission Specialist Rick Linnehan works on the Canadian robot, named
Dextre, 13 March 2008Two astronauts from the U.S. space shuttle
Endeavour have successfully attached two arms to a giant Canadian
robot called Dextre at the International Space Station.

Richard Linnehan and Michael Foreman conducted Sunday's seven-hour
spacewalk.  Dextre's arms are 3.3 meters long and will be used in
future maintenance and service tasks at the space station. 

Astonaunts plan to finish assembling the $200 million robot during a
third spacewalk set to start on Monday. 

At the start of Endeavour's 12-day mission, astronauts attached a
Japanese-built module,which is the first component of the new Kibo
laboratory.



Some information for this report was provided by AP.




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