Showing off Robonaut 2's dexterity with complicated but (relatively) fragile objects like a piece of fabric covering a surface, and an envelope.

Right after the video ends, Robonaut paused and entered a point in the algorithm where he was waiting for someone to take the envelope from him (at which point he hands it over). Interesting to see how breakpoints like that worked as part of the behavioural scripts.

Payload: Curiosity Mars Rover

Snapshots from NASA Tweetup (on Twitter: #NASATweetup) for Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Launch, Nov. 25 & 26, 2011, Kennedy Space Center, Fla.

with @Camilla_SDO. She's from Houston too!

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Astro hand casts used to customise spacesuit gloves

Spacesuit helmet

Lt. Col. Patrick Barrett, a weather officer for the launch, stopped by to talk to us about the various things that impact the launch weather decision.

Vertical Assembly Building at KSC

Where, according to legend, flight directors celebrate successful launches

Kate with Jim Lovell - Command Module Pilot on Apollo 8, backup Commander on Apollo 11, and commander on the famous Apollo 13 mission.

Kate with Jim Lovell - Command Module Pilot on Apollo 8, backup Commander on Apollo 11, and commander on the famous Apollo 13 mission.

Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center

The Internet invades Spacevidcast

Space shuttle discovery sits on the launchpad the night before her final launch. This photo was taken about 15 minutes after the Rotating Service Structure was rotated away.

Apollo zeitgeist

Kate with Jim Lovell - Command Module Pilot on Apollo 8, backup Commander on Apollo 11, and commander on the famous Apollo 13 mission.

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Views inside the Vertical Assembly Building at KSC

Leland Melvin talking to the #nasatweetup group

Vehicle Assembly Building, NASA

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This is uploaded as a huge full-size version, if you want a copy big enough to spot yourself in the crowd. :)

I made a 24" wide collage to print for a shadow-box project I am making from the NASATweetup. I will have mission patch, NASA patch, mission pin, Shuttle Program completion commemorative coin, & a few other things I got from the STS135 Tweetup ... should be a nice wall-hanging when I get done

Business end of the Saturn 2nd stage

The SSI logo kind of reminds me of Cyberdyne or, to a lesser extent Weyland-Yutani

Unlocking any one lock unlocks the gate, so that all of the keys don't have to be replaced when a lock gets replaced