Flight Telerobotics

NASA decided to develop a 288million Flight Telerobotics Servicer FTS in 1987 to help astronauts assemble the Space Station which was growing bigger and more complex with each redesign Shown here is the winning robot design by Martin Marietta who received a 297million contract in May 1989 to develop a vehicle by 1993 About the best thing that can be said for the FTS project was that it generated a lot of lessons learned The robot never flew and never will fly because it was never completed This project demonstrated that faulttolerance gone wild will doom a robot The robot had so many redundant systems that there was just too much to go wrong

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