[Leica] NASA Space Vehicle Mockup Facility

[Don Dory]

Thank you for the quick tour.   Once the facility is open again for tours
I'll need to drop in for another tour.

On Wed, May 27, 2020, 7:32 PM Peter Klein via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> Here are a few photos taken inside NASA's Space Vehicle Mockup Facility
> in Houston. Astronauts train here for future missions to the
> International Space Station, the moon and Mars. It's hard to believe I
> was there only 3 months ago, near the end of the "before-time."
>
> This shot is particularly interesting because a NASA technician is
> training a robot for a future Mars mission.  I wondered about the pickup
> truck.  It turns out that they use it to teach the robot how to open doors.
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> Here's the rest of my picks, showing ISS module mockups and such:
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> https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/49943265191/in/dateposted-public/
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> https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/49943265261/in/dateposted-public/
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> Olympus E-M5 and Panasonic 20/1.7 (40mm equivalent). Our large tour
> group was packed into a narrow hallway above the facility, with thick
> glass windows.  I don't remember seeing the Space-X Dragon mockup, but
> we were being moved along fairly quickly.  View large and full screen if
> you can.  Enjoy!
>
> --Peter
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