Astronauts Build Monster Robot In Space
eah, it’s not as cool as it sounds, so don’t get your hopes up.
Two astronauts spent their Saturday night assembling a giant robot outside the International Space Station (ISS), wrangling with stubborn bolts to attach the machine’s two massive arms.
Astronauts Rick Linnehan and Mike Foreman, who both arrived at the space station in NASA’s shuttle Endeavour, worked in the vacuum of space for 7 hours and 8 minutes to assemble the 1.7-ton Dextre maintenance robot. Several stuck bolts on a U-shaped shipping platform slowed down the two spacewalkers, but ultimately didn’t stop them from piecing together the Canadian-built “Mr. Dextre.”
March 18th, 2008 at 11:49 am
I read about that. Sounds kinda cool really, an advanced form of the robotic arm they use to capture satalites.