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 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The space station's gigantic new robot, Dextre, rose like Frankenstein from its transport bed early Sunday so spacewalking astronauts could attach its 11-foot arms.
With a tug from spacewalking astronaut Richard Linnehan, Dextre's main body was rotated up 60 degrees, an ideal position for plugging in its 11-foot arms. The robot looked as though it was sitting up.
"It's really eerie out here. It's pitch black and there's just this big white kind of humanoid-looking thing below me," Linnehan said.
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