Dextre is named by the Canada-wide naming contest.
NASA - All Aboard for STS-123: The Station Goes Global
"the Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator. Dubbed Dextre by a Canada-wide naming contest, the robot, with its two small robotic arms, will attach to the station's robotic arm, Candarm2, and allow astronauts to replace hardware outside the station without doing a spacewalk."
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts123/mission_over...
I hear a weapons company want to buy the arm from canada ! well the states has Laser tech we can trade for ! lol.....
jason74ftchip 3 years ago