Space robot powers up

Astronaut Rick Linnehan works outside the
international space station Friday.

HOUSTON, Texas (AP) -- With power now flowing to the international space station's new robot, the astronauts aboard the linked shuttle-station complex prepared Saturday for a spacewalk to assemble the giant machine.

On Friday night, astronauts used the space station's mechanical arm to grab onto and energize Dextre, bypassing a faulty cable that wasn't able to transmit power to the robot. full story