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Elizabeth Howell

Canadarm2 was not designed to catch spacecraft at the ISS. Now it's about to grab its 50th

A spacecraft with two solar wings above earth. at right is a robot arm.

A Canadian robot arm on the International Space Station is days from a big milestone.

MDA Space's Canadarm2 will celebrate its 50th cosmic catch no earlier than Aug. 5, when a Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo ship berths with the International Space Station (ISS) with thousands of pounds of experiments, supplies and food for the Expedition 71 astronauts, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced today (Aug. 2).

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