Gadgetory

Americans don't fly spaceships anymore we catch a ride with Russia commercial spaceflight is awesome and it's doing really well and it might get American humans in American vehicles up soon but it might take NASA a decade to build its own capsule and get astronauts back in space so what what happens now at NASA what is happening now I'm here at the Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas opening the doors to shed light on the future of human space travel this is Robonaut 2 he's a collaboration between NASA GM there's a guy exactly almost exactly like this up in space right now this is in Houston and NASA's tests out new routines new behaviors and they ship them over to another lab where they have an exact replica of Robonaut that's on the space station where they finalize routine then they beam that up space and do it for real well the whole idea behind Robonaut is to provide an assistant for crew a Robonaut could work side by side with the crew like a nurse to a doctor or you could also take down all the tools and everything all the infrastructure after a particular task is completed I think it's important to keep in mind that Robonaut is a tool many people talk about science fiction robots and how they can go and do things on their own Robo Knight has been designed specifically to be a tool for people it only does we tell it to do and it's been designed with the safety and the reliability to be a useful tool around people not to go off and do anything on its own I'm just going to show you a quick little scene from national treasure 3 at the start of the movie Nicolas Cage is sent to space using one of the Russian vehicles that currently takes astronauts to space because the the Space Shuttle has been the decommission and he's looking for the lost US Constitution and unknown to the other astronauts since Robonaut outside the space station to retrieve the the Constitution and so Robonaut can fold back thermal blanket that's hiding the US Constitution and Nicolas Cage back inside the space station because Nicholas Cage doesn't know how to spacewalk she's like oh thanks Robonaut i will take the US Constitution to the President of the United States mask him why did you hide this on the space station well don't you look in the yellow look at the goblet it's just not Constitution it's just so this is called the Robo glove an exoskeleton for your ham it's basically designed to help you grab things and make you stronger in the glove itself here on the thumb we have something called a for sense resistor we actually actuate the tendons and we pulled them down and then release them when you let go the f sr and that's what gives you the extra power to lift an object like a heavyweight or something more so now I I mean I can lift heavy weight on my life cuz I want you guys to know very capable of lifting heavy weight sure i'm here with front of the multi-mission multi-mission space exploration vehicle and so this is a capsule with a dead body mounted to the outside noise so explain your ears telling me this is like a modular system so that that's where multi-mission comes in the chassis is effectively a robot this robot has wheels and that moves around the payload is the cabin so can i I Drive it yeah let's hop in so I do I've the pilot now you're the pilot so pretty much push the stick in the direction you want to travel and the vehicle will do what it needs to do to get there here we go so you'll notice when I just tipping into it so right now if you were outside you'd see it forcing this right wheel down into that hole incredible it doesn't make any sense it's just like a avoiding a weird random direction of floating and I'm Bobby the cure itself won't allow you to to do things that are gonna jeopardize the safety of the robot as you're going over the hill you're starting to pick up more speed because your vehicle weighs a lot but the wheels notice that and say well I'm only getting a command of one meter per second and it's so you maintain that speed ma'am I just feel like it's like just giving me out of a pinch every time that's nothing a little rescued basically by a robot we can venture over to Mars if you want that was good I'm sick of the moon can we go through the wall and yeah yes pretty good life down there I saw dragonfly lot of people that's our star c300 so sixteen thousand dollar camera I'm gonna run over it I'm gonna close my eyes and you're gonna tell me go straight and you tell me what's thought okay ready yeah push you push your stick forward my eyes a club stick us forward oh we're doing it I was looking good oh my god it's probably not quite center but listen I think we need I don't see anybody in the cameras crying it's okay alright trying to back off just look at the review of the rear view camera this is the space vehicle mock-up facility where they have space vehicle mock-up seeeeee within the facility this is a ryan this is NASA's next generation space capsule so this is how we would get back from the Moon or Mars or wherever we go next this is how we land back on earth but you could live in here for a while for people could be in here if they really liked each other to be in here for 21 days basically this this room is awesome and I'm gonna live here NASA Johnson Space Center Visitor Miller Paul Josiah expires wednesday october Tober 7th and that's today some say space is the final frontier and you know that's a final frontier that's a lot it's like in Little House on the Prairie when they you know they move to the little cabin in the Big Woods but that wasn't far enough so they they move further to the Little House on the Prairie and you know and then one day we found the UH notion to new an ocean on the whole other side of the country there's an ocean this whole time and I think spaces like that the scientists that I met today in Houston at NASA are they're working on him this bass player we are not there yet but we're working on it that's cool