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Robots, scientists, engineers and flight controllers from NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., and NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, gathered at NASA Ames to perform a series of tests based on mission-related activities for NASA's planned return to the moon.
Tests featured science operations, robotics support and site surveys of the Marscape. Engineers and science directors remotely planned, drove and monitored the K-10 Red robot from NASA's FutureFlight Central facility approximately one quarter-mile away.
Mission engineers and scientists conducted the simulation to demonstrate how continuous, interactive, human-robotic systems can perform lunar exploration work.
Participants in the exercise included Kenneth Ford, Director of the NASA Advisory Council and Apollo 17 Astronaut Harrison "Jack" Schmitt.
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