From The Archives: Human And Robotic Spaceflight

On the cover of the September 12, 2005 issue, is an illustration of combined human and robotic operations, space shuttle Discovery STS-114 astronaut Stephen Robinson is maneuvered at 220 mi. altitude on the International Space Station's robotic arm, which was developed in Canada by Macdonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. 

Discovery astronaut Wendy Lawrence is piloting the arm from inside the ISS to place Robinson under the orbiter's belly for rudimentary maintenance to the shuttle's thermal protection tiles.

STS-114 and ISS astronauts took spectacular pictures of the joint robotic and other operations during the July 26 - August 9 shuttle return-to-flight mission. For more on this, read page 48 - "The High Road" - The STS-114 shuttle return-to-flight mission is a step toward meeting the exploration vision. Mission images reaffirm the maturity of human & robotic flight ops.

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