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Rxke

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2003-11-03

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Re: A whole family of Lunar unmanned rovers being tested...

http://robonaut.jsc.nasa.gov/desert06.htm

Quite an interesting read, I like how the different designs interact with eachother, enhancing overall capabilities...

SpaceNut

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From: New Hampshire

Registered: 2004-07-22

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Re: A whole family of Lunar unmanned rovers being tested...

Great images of a combo-image of Centaur - a half humanoid, half vehicle - handling packed samples, Desert RATS, and mock way-station called a Pressurised Rover Compartment (PRC).

NASA test-ing time; Once every year, a special team heads out to a crater in Arizona to test out all futuristic equipment

Arizona’s famed Meteor Crater, once a year, becomes the centre for an event that makes it’s desert topography look more like the set of a science fiction movie.

Though you won’t get a glimpse of R2D2 or C3PO, you would see robots, rovers and space-suited subjects with the latest inter-planetary gear trekking over some of the Arizona’s harshest environment.

Robonaut Desert Tests Nasa - Johnson Space Center