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Astronaut’s Mission Is To Snatch A Dragon Without Crashing The Canadarm
The robotic Canadarm2 is routinely used to berth spacecraft to the International Space Station, such as SpaceX’s Dragon. Credit: NASA
When there’s a Dragon spacecraft coming your way at the International Space Station, you’d better be ready to grapple it with a robotic arm. For if there’s a crash, you will face “a very bad day”, as astronaut David Saint-Jacques points out in this new video (also embedded below the jump).
That’s why the Canadian (along with European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen) was doing robotics training this month at the Canadian Space Agency headquarters near Montreal. The most terrifying thing for astronauts must be the limited view as they do delicate maneuvers with the multi-million dollar Canadarm2.
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© Elizabeth Howell for Universe Today, 2014. |
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Post tags: Andreas Mogensen, canadarm, Canadarm2, Canadian Space Agency, David Saint-Jacques, Dragon, SpaceX
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/110500/astronauts-mission-is-to-snatch-a-dragon-without-crashing-the-canadarm/
