Robonaut Is Getting Ready For His Big Trip to Space
Paul Adams
Published on Tuesday, August 17th, 2010 at 7:15 am
He has been crated up and shipped to Kennedy Space Center. At the Space Station Processing Facility there, he is going to be carefully packed into his SLEEPR — the Structural Launch Enclosure to Effectively Protect Robonaut.
At over 220 kilograms, the packed-up Robonaut will be perhaps the heaviest cargo ever carried in a space cargo module, according to NASA.
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