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July 04, 2013

Orbiting astronaut controls robot on Earth, testing feasibility of CU-Boulder project on far side of the moon
Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 04, 2013
n astronaut orbiting Earth in the International Space Station has remotely directed a NASA rover in California to unfurl an "antenna film" that scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder are developing for use on the unexplored far side of the moon. When astronaut Chris Cassidy used a Space Station computer to pilot the robot across a mock lunar surface at NASA's Ames Research Center on June 17, he demonstrated for the first time that an astronaut in an orbiting spacecraft could successfully ... read more

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