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 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - 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.
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. Electricity quickly began streaming to the machine's various joints and electronics, to everyone's relief.
"Good news from the flight control room," Mission Control announced. "Dextre has power."
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