Engineers at NASA's Johnson Space Center test software upgrades on Robonaut 2. Because R2 was designed as a prototype, some changes were necessary to ready it for life on the International Space Station. R2 is scheduled to launch into space aboard Discovery on the STS-133 mission.
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Engineers at NASA's Johnson Space Center test software upgrades on Robonaut 2. Because R2 was designed as a prototype, some changes were necessary to ready it for life on the International Space Station. R2 is scheduled to launch into space aboard Discovery on the STS-133 mission.