Dextre Successfully Completes Its First Official Job

Dextre, the Canadian Space Agency?s robotic handyman aboard the International Space Station, completed its first real job early this morning, unpacking two critical pieces of equipment delivered by Japan?s Kounotori2 spacecraft - the space equivalent of a moving van.

After Expedition 26 Commander Scott Kelly and Flight Engineers Paolo Nespoli and Cady Coleman completed a handoff of the pallet containing the two items using both Canadarm2 and the Kibo laboratory?s Japanese robotic arm,  [...]

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