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 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A pair of spacewalking astronauts started putting together a robot outside the international space station early Friday despite a problem getting power to the giant machine.
The trouble cropped up Thursday and had engineers scrambling for a solution as Richard Linnehan and Garrett Reisman ventured out late at night on the first spacewalk of shuttle Endeavour's space station mission. The astronauts got a Japanese storage compartment ready for attachment to the space station, then turned their attention to the Canadian robot, named Dextre.
LeRoy Cain, chairman of the mission management team, said the power loss would not affect the spacewalkers' effort to attach Dextre's hands to its 11-foot arms. The astronauts began the robot work right around midnight, 2 1/2 hours into their spacewalk.
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