[spacewalk] one small step for endeavour ...

Spacewalk day: Two astronauts ventured out on the first spacewalk of Endeavour's space station visit Saturday to help install a porch on Japan's expansive lab. Veteran spaceman David Wolf and rookie Timothy Kopra got straight to work as they floated out the hatch, 220 miles away from the planet. With Apollo 11 on the minds of many back on Earth, NASA noted that Saturday's spacewalk was the 201st by Americans since those first [alleged - JH] steps on the moon by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin 40 years ago this Monday. Lord T will be happy: The work involved extensive robotics with both the shuttle and station arms, as well as a hands-on effort by the spacewalkers. "It's going to be something," Wolf said earlier in the day. "It's a heck of a day of teamwork between robots and people in space and all over the world." This blog's been concentrating on the dance of life between men and women lately but maybe we should be looking a bit more at the dance of entities between mankind and robots: Hope it doesn't all end in tears: .