Station Crew Works with Robotics, Prepares for Spaceflight Transports

(NASA) - The Expedition 22 crew of the International Space Station began installing a robotic arm Wednesday while preparing for upcoming spacecraft departures and arrivals.

Inside the Japanese Kibo Laboratory, Flight Engineers Soichi Noguchi and T.J. Creamer used the Japanese Kibo laboratory?s 33-foot-long main arm to move a smaller robotic arm, known as the small fine arm, out of Kibo?s airlock and into place for deployment. Over the next two days, the two flight engineers will perform  [...]

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