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ABC News: Astronauts Battle Robot Glitch, Install Hands
Summary from multiple countries, from articles in English
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Astronauts got power flowing to the international space station's new robot Friday night, overcoming a problem that had threatened to disrupt shuttle Endeavour's construction mission. (article 2)
Working from inside, the astronauts used the space station's mechanical arm to grab onto the robot named Dextre and energize the sleeping giant, which had been lying dormant outside the orbiting complex for nearly two days. (article 2)
Flight controllers plan to use the International Space Station's robotic arm to grapple a newly installed Canadian-built robot in an effort to provide power to the machine. (article 4)
Canadian astronaut Julie Payette said the Canadian Space Agency engineers suspect the problem is due to a power cable connecting the robot's temporary carrier to Dextre. (article 4)
LONGUEUIL, Que - Astronaut Julie Payette says Canadarm2 will come the rescue of a $200-million Canadian space robot in need of an electrical boost. (article 3)
By GINA SUNSERI March 14, 2008 - Early this morning astronauts completed the first of five planned spacewalks at the International Space Station. (article 6)
The Space Shuttle Endeavour is now docked to the International Space Station for an ambitious 16-day mission with a demanding five spacewalks, the most NASA has ever tried to accomplish during one space station mission. (article 8)
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Space, robot, Dextre, astronauts, shuttle |
Source articles
- FOXNEWS.COM HOME > SCITECH (FOX News, 03/13/2008, 584 words)
- ABC News: Astronauts Battle Robot Glitch, Install Hands (ABCNews, 03/14/2008, 311 words)
- Canadarm2 to rescue Canadian robot with vital electrical boost (cbc.ca, 03/14/2008, 478 words)
- Faulty connection suspected in Dextre power glitch (cbc.ca, 03/14/2008, 457 words)
- ABC News: Creeping Into the Robot Hall of Fame (ABCNews, 03/14/2008, 368 words)
- What You Don't Know About Living in Space (ABCNews, 03/14/2008, 779 words)
- Send news tip to FOXNews.com (FOX News, 03/13/2008, 1134 words)
- ABC News: Mysterious Object Didn't Strike Shuttle (ABCNews, 03/13/2008, 246 words)
- ABC News: Did Something Hit Shuttle at Liftoff? (ABCNews, 03/12/2008, 442 words)
- FOXNEWS.COM HOME > SCITECH (FOX News, 03/13/2008, 543 words)
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