Robot eye tested by astronauts

Cape Canaveral - Two Columbia astronauts have tested a robot eye and a telescoping crane during NASA's final practice spacewalk…

Cape Canaveral - Two Columbia astronauts have tested a robot eye and a telescoping crane during NASA's final practice spacewalk before the start of space station construction. NASA's Winston Scott and Takao Doi of the Japanese space agency spent nearly five hours outside the space shuttle, finishing up work postponed from an earlier spacewalk.

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