http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/03/06/shuttle.html
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The spacecraft is scheduled to land at 11:58 a.m. ET on Wednesday, when it will be retired and sent to a museum, more than 26 years after its first flight.
During the mission, Discovery's crew delivered and installed a new storage compartment at the space station, along with a humanoid robot. Robonaut 2, or R2, will spend the next year or so attached to a pedestal in the U.S. lab on the station.
The R2 consists of a head and a torso with two arms and two hands. NASA says it's able to use the same tools station crew members use. Engineers at the station will monitor how the robot operates in weightlessness.
^ the bolded text is what worries me... what if his parents don't like how we huhmins treat him?
http://robonaut.jsc.nasa.gov/default.asp
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There are currently four Robonauts, with others currently in development. This allows us to study various types of mobility, control methods, and task applications...
^ anyone else have flashbacks of certain "in the lab" scenes in Terminator 3?
From what I hear the astronuts would have preferred the empty space to put stuff they already have "floating around"