Space Station Live: Surface Telerobotics
Space Station Live commentator Pat Ryan talks with Maria Bualat, the payload developer for the Surface Telerobotics engineering test at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. Recently, astronaut Luca Parmitano, an Expedition 36 flight engineer aboard the International Space Station, remotely commanded a rover located at Ames' Roverscape, an outdoor robotic test area, for this experiment to test new robots, modes of control and operational concepts.