SPACE.com -- Canadians Excited to Send Robotic 'Superhero' into Space

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"Canadians Excited to Send Robotic 'Superhero' into Space
By Dave Mosher
Staff Writer
posted: 10 March 2008
01:20 am ET

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Mr. Dextre stands taller than a house, has two seven-jointed arms and can fly around the Earth in about 90 minutes. But he is not a superhero, nor is 'he' a person.

'Mr. Dextre,' as NASA's latest space shuttle Endeavour crew has coined it, is actually a Canadian space-age robot bound for the International Space Station (ISS) early Tuesday morning along with Japan's first orbital room. Led by commander Dominic Gorie, the seven-astronaut STS-123 crew will start assembly of the giant robot in space later this week."