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Mission "Endeavour": spacewalking surgeons repair ISS robot arm

Cape Canaveral, Usa - Shuttle Endeavour's landing back to Earth is targeted for Monday

The International Space Station's Canadian robot arm has a new, fully functioning wrist joint thanks to a successful orbital house call Thursday by a pair of spacewalking surgeons. Two astronauts first removed the robot arm's "hand" and then it's faulty wrist roll joint, which hadn't been working right for more than two months due to a failure believed to be in some electronics. Landing of Endeavour...

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Rome, Italy, 06/14/2002 14:31
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