What arm is 17 meters long and sometimes uses humans for fingers? The Canadarm2 [ http://en.wikipedia…] aboard the International Space Station [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] (ISS). Canadarm2 has multiple joints and is capable of maneuvering payloads as massive as 116,000 kilograms, equivalent to a fully loaded bus. Canadarm2 [ http://spaceflight.…] is operated by remote control by a human inside the space station [ http://www.nasa.gov…]. To help with tasks requiring a particularly high level of precision and detail, an astronaut can be anchored to an attached foot constraint. The arm is able propel itself [ http://en.wikipedia…] end-over-end around the outside of the space station. Pictured above [ http://spaceflight.…], astronaut Stephen Robinson [ http://www.jsc.nasa…] rides Canadarm2 during the STS-114 [ http://www.nasa.gov…] mission of the space shuttle Discovery [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] to the ISS in 2005 August. Space shuttles often deploy their own original version of a robotic arm [ http://www.space.gc…] dubbed Canadarm [ http://en.wikipedia…]. Next year, a second robotic arm [ http://en.wikipedia…] is scheduled to be deployed on the space station.
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What arm is 17 meters long and sometimes uses humans for fingers? The Canadarm2 [ http://en.wikipedia…] aboard the International Space Station [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] (ISS). Canadarm2 has multiple joints and is capable of maneuvering payloads as massive as 116,000 kilograms, equivalent to a fully loaded bus. Canadarm2 [ http://spaceflight.…] is operated by remote control by a human inside the space station [ http://www.nasa.gov…]. To help with tasks requiring a particularly high level of precision and detail, an astronaut can be anchored to an attached foot constraint. The arm is able propel itself [ http://en.wikipedia…] end-over-end around the outside of the space station. Pictured above [ http://spaceflight.…], astronaut Stephen Robinson [ http://www.jsc.nasa…] rides Canadarm2 during the STS-114 [ http://www.nasa.gov…] mission of the space shuttle Discovery [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] to the ISS in 2005 August. Space shuttles often deploy their own original version of a robotic arm [ http://www.space.gc…] dubbed Canadarm [ http://en.wikipedia…]. Next year, a second robotic arm [ http://en.wikipedia…] is scheduled to be deployed on the space station.
