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First spacewalk of mission begins tonight

Submit on Thursday, March 13th, 2008 21:04

Astronauts Richard Linnehan and Garrett Reisman will press ahead with a near full-duration spacewalk this evening to prepare a Japanese logistics module for attachment to the space station and to begin assembly of a Canadian robot known as Dextre. Canadian robotics experts, meanwhile, are working on a software patch that might resolve a problem preventing engineers from routing power to the robot’s components.

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