The search for two people who remain missing will continue alongside the removaloperation, said Franco Gabrielli, head of the Italian Civil Protection agency.
Robinson, who was accompanied on the spacewalk by crewmate Soichi Noguchi, had received instructions in a 12-page e-mail to prepare him for the removaloperation.
"'There is certainly relief in the city today that another successful police operation has led to the removal from our streets of instruments of death and destruction, " he said.