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MCroft04
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From: Smithfield, Me, USA
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posted 12-10-2006 05:51 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for MCroft04   Click Here to Email MCroft04     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I hosted some Indonesian visitors today at Space Center Houston and while on the tour to JSC I noticed a feature in the distance outside of Building 5 (Astronaut Training Building) that resembled a small volcanic dome. The tour guide told me it was built to simulate the surface of Mars so NASA could test their robonauts. See link below for a picture. I have 2 questions; 1) Does anyone know more about these efforts? and 2) Does the lunar landscape that was built at JSC to train Apollo astronauts still exist?
http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL1619/7418212/14110480/212354039.jpg

yeknom-ecaps
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From: Northville MI USA
Registered: Aug 2005

posted 12-11-2006 09:19 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for yeknom-ecaps   Click Here to Email yeknom-ecaps     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The robots are under the NASA Desert RATS program and they have a yearly field test near Meteor Crater in Arizona as well. Check out this web site for more info and links to other locations.

http://robots.net/article/2026.html

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