#Canadarm

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During STS-2 Columbia, the Shuttle Remote Manipulator System (RMS), or Canadarm, was tested for the first time and was successfully operated in all its various operating modes.

This mission one of the three fuel cells failed, necessarily the mission to be shortened to two days. These fuel cells produce the electricity for the shuttle and drinking water for the Astronauts. Initially, NASA was going to forego the Canadarm tests. However, Astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly stayed awake during their scheduled sleep period to complete these tests. They were able to complete 90% of the planned objectives during the shortened mission.

In mission control, Sally Ride was the Capsule Communications Operator (CapCom), and was the first woman to be in this position. CapCom is held by an astronaut who communicates with the crew members in their spacecraft from Mission Control. Ride was chosen as Capcom in part because of her experience and skill in using the Canadarm, and she assisted crew in manuevering it.

View from the elbow camera of the aft bulkhead of Columbia and Sally Ride's reaction to the crew's "Hi Mom" sign.

About 19 months later, Sally Ride became the first American female Astronaut to fly into space aboard STS-7 Challenger.

Date: November 13, 1981

NASA documentary about the STS-2 mission: link

NASA ID: STS002-12-833, STS002-13-226, S81-34005, S81-33963

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inktober 2: discover

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Discovery with her OBSS out on STS-114

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Thinking about her

[walrusmagazine]

Canada’s Big Flex in Space

The Canadarm started as a boring robotic appendage. Now the future of space travel depends on it

Chris Hadfield trained four years for a seven-hour spacewalk. On April 22, 2001, he and American astronaut Scott Parazynski were tasked with assembling and installing a payload, which had arrived with them via space shuttle, onto the International Space Station. The payload was the Space Station Remote Manipulator System—or, as it’s colloquially known on planet Earth, Canadarm2, the latest robotic limb in a series of Canadarms first announced in 1975 through a joint US–Canadian agreement. The original Canadarms (pronounced “Cana-darm,” not “Canada arm”—a pet peeve of Hadfield’s) were critical to the assembly and growth of the ISS.

Read more at thewalrus.ca.

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I’m better than the astronauts from the I.S.S. horror movie on amazon prime because I didn’t NEED to be blasted up a billion centimetres into orbit and see the planet turn to know that borders aren’t real and governments won’t save you and we просто нужно помнить о том, что нужно держаться вместе.

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I got some prints for my apartment for Christmas and I’m sososo excited to get them up

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I had to search it

That's cool and very on-brand for him

rodney mckay having a pic of the canadarm up on his wall of his bedroom he’s just like me fr

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Space Shuttle: Canadarm

Officially named the Shuttle Remote Manipulator System, or SRMS. "In 1969, Canada was invited by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to participate in the Space Shuttle program. At the time what that participation would entail had not yet been decided but a manipulator system was identified as an important component. Canadian company DSMA ATCON had developed a robot to load fuel into CANDU nuclear reactors; this robot attracted NASA's attention. In 1975, NASA and the Canadian National Research Council (NRC) signed a memorandum of understanding that Canada would develop and construct the Canadarm.

NRC awarded the manipulator contract to Spar Aerospace (now MDA). Three systems were constructed within this design, development, test, and evaluation contract: an engineering model to assist in the design and testing of the Canadarm, a qualification model that was subjected to environmental testing to qualify the design for use in space, and a flight unit."

"The Remote Manipulator System is plugged on a side panel (left side) of the pyaload bay. The shoulder is on the front (near the cabin) and 15.3 m long (35.7 cm of diameter). It is fasten by three points on the payload bay. It could have been plugged on the right side of the Orbiter but it has never be done because the Ku antenna must be moved. Only one arm can be controlled by the crew (rear wall), even if the wires are already plugged to control two.

Its weight is 411 kg on Earth (carbon fibre), it can move payload of 29 tons in orbit. But it can't move its own weight on Earth, so to test it, it was lay on wheels. Equipped with video camera (one on the elbow and one wrist), it can move payload, bring them back or even act as a ladder for the astronauts during the EVAs. Finally, due to its high mobility it can also be used to look at different parts of the Orbiter."

"The first Canadarm was delivered to NASA in April 1981. Astronaut Judith Resnik developed the NASA software and onboard operating procedures for the system. In all, five arms – Nos. 201, 202, 301, 302, and 303 – were built and delivered to NASA. Arm 302 was lost in the Challenger accident."

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NASA ID: STS002

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I'm with a celebrity!

say hi to the CanadARM!!

he went to space!

you've probably seen him in this movie

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Very fun museum :)

At the museum for my birthday :)

[spacefrontier]

Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery during STS-114. July 26, 2005.

STS-114 was the first Return to Flight following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

The primary mission of STS-114 was the testing and evaluation of new Space Shuttle flight safety techniques, which included new inspection and repair techniques. Crew aboard Discovery used the new Orbiter Boom Sensory System, a set of instruments attached to the Canadarm, to detect problems with the Shuttle's Thermal Protection System.

STS-114 also delivered supplies to the International Space Station, carrying the Raffaello Multi-Purpose Logistics Module, built by the Italian Space Agency, as well as External Stowage Platform 2, which was mounted on the Quest airlock.

STS-114 crew on orbit. Back row, from left: Pilot James Kelly; Mission Specialists Charles Camarda, Stephen K Robinson, and Wendy Lawrence. Front row, from left: Mission Specialist Andrew Thomas, Commander Eileen Collins, and Mission Specialist Soichi Noguchi, representing the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

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Pilot Gordon Fullerton operates the Canadarm on Space Shuttle Columbia, STS-3