NASA transformed the international space station into a command center for a robot on the earth this month for a first of its kind test drive of the technology and skills needed to remotely operate the robot on the moon, mars or and asteroid.
During the June 17 space technology test, NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, a space station flight engineer, remotely controlled a K10 rover at the agency's Ames Research Center in Moffett field, Calif. The robot was commanded to simulate deploying a polyimide-film antenna in a specially built "Roverscape" at the NASA center.
On the space station, Cassidy received telemetry and real time video from the rover and monitored the robot's reaction to his commands via virtual terrain display.
On the space station, Cassidy received telemetry and real time video from the rover and monitored the robot's reaction to his commands via virtual terrain display.
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