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The “2009 Robotic Recon” field test went extremely well, achieved all of its primary and secondary objectives, and returned a significant amount of data that will help NASA improve future lunar and planetary exploration. Preparing and conducting this field test was a collaborative effort, which required close teamwork between many organizations.
The above image shows the “ground control” team at the Lunar Science Institute on the last day of the field test. Engineers, flight controllers, scientists, interns… they all played critical roles in making everything work so well at NASA Ames.
Special thanks the two science teams that supported the field test. During the first week, the “West” team (shown here) included Kip Hodges (Arizona State University), Jose Hurtado (University of Texas / El Paso), Marwan Hussein (Optech), Nina Lanza (University of New Mexico), Pascal Lee (Mars Institute), Ann Ollila (University of New Mexico), and Jim Rice (Arizona State University).
During the second week, the “North” science team included Mary Sue Bell (NASA JSC), David Kring (Lunar and Planetary Institute), Rob Stewart (University of Houston), Jeff Tripp (Optech), Mike Wyatt (Brown University), R. Aileen Yingst (Planetary Science Institute), and Kelsey Young (Arizona State University).
The K10 field team and KSC communications team showed tremendous dedication and hard work at Black Point Lava Flow. In spite of wind, rain, blazing sun, dust, radio interference, and difficult terrain, the people in the field managed to deploy K10 every single day that was needed, and in every location that was asked.
Linda Kobayashi (field team manager) and Estrellina Pacis (NASA Ames team manager) did a phenomenal job. These jobs are incredibly stressful and require working on many, many different things at the same time, all the time. Yet, through it all, Linda and Estrellina never complained, never let anything fall through the cracks and always managed to make it look easy.
The Robotic Recon Team received glowing praise about the quality of their work from several important visitors, including NASA senior management, external collaborators, and former astronauts. One of the program managers of the Exploration Technology Development Program commented,
“You’ve got a great team doing excellent, relevant work for the Agency, work that will position us well for both robotic and human exploration and science missions.”
Future Robotic Reconnaisance testing will further advance our understanding of how humans and robots will collaborate to achieve NASA’s goals. There will be many papers and reports that will come in the following weeks!
Posted by: Soderman/NLSI Staff
Source: NASA/ Dr. Fong
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