Astronauts Test Repair Goo in Spacewalk

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This image provided by NASA shows the Special Purpose Dextrous Manipulator also known as Dextre in the grasp of the stations robotic Canadarm2 in this image photographed by a crewmember on the International Space Station Tuesday March 18 2008 while S ...
This image provided by NASA shows the Special Purpose Dextrous Manipulator also known as Dextre in the grasp of the station's robotic Canadarm2 in this image photographed by a crewmember on the International Space Station Tuesday March 18, 2008 while Space Shuttle Endeavour is docked with the station. Also pictured are solar array panels. A blue and white Earth provides the backdrop for the scene. Two of the crew members will float outside Thursday night to squirt salmon-colored goo into the crevices of extra space shuttle thermal tiles that were deliberately damaged for the test. (AP Photo/NASA)
(AP) -- Two spacewalking astronauts, armed with a caulk gun and high-tech kind of Silly Putty, floated out the hatch Thursday to test a method for patching shuttle thermal tiles.


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