We have a good friend who works for NASA and he invited us to take a VIP tour given by him. It was awesome. He took us to see Saturn V, which you get to see in the normal NASA experience, but then he took us to where he works. He works in the robotics department. I wasn't able to take pictures of the project that he was working on...something about if we took pictures then he'd have to kill us :) But he explained some other projects that NASA has been working on.
This is a robot that can do repairs on the outside of the space station. He will be able to grab onto the space station with his feet and then work with both hands - the astronauts have to be able to hold on with one hand and do the repair with the other, making it much more difficult.
This is the backside of a rover. It is designed so the astronauts can get out of their spacesuit on the outside of the craft.
The are life size replicas of parts of the space station where the astronauts go to practice things that they will have to accomplish while in space.
This is definitely not part of the regular tour that you get when you go to NASA and it was awesome!
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