Guess what the Russians sent to the Space Station today. A terminator robot guaranteed to give any astronaut nightmares.
WE are in command now!
Video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_conti...huytqeLKaU
It's being sent in a Soyuz capsule, but apparently it will be riding alone. (If you were an astronaut, would you want to be in a capsule with ... that?)
The official reason why FEDOR is riding alone is that the Soyuz booster it's riding is an otherwise untested upgrade of the old Soyuz and the Russians didn't want to fly humans on it until it has been tested. (It's the old Soyuz, except with a new flight control system and computers.) But they don't need to be so scrupulous with robots.
(When SpaceX wanted to test its new Crew Dragon capsule, it sent Little Earth. When the Russians wanted to test their new Soyuz upgrade, they sent a villain from a bad science fiction movie.)
https://www.euronews.com/2019/08/22/watc...new-rocket
The Russians call their robot FEDOR. (Not Arnold.)
Like all terminators, it's good with a gun:
I like our cubical American space-bees better.
WE are in command now!
Video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_conti...huytqeLKaU
It's being sent in a Soyuz capsule, but apparently it will be riding alone. (If you were an astronaut, would you want to be in a capsule with ... that?)
The official reason why FEDOR is riding alone is that the Soyuz booster it's riding is an otherwise untested upgrade of the old Soyuz and the Russians didn't want to fly humans on it until it has been tested. (It's the old Soyuz, except with a new flight control system and computers.) But they don't need to be so scrupulous with robots.
(When SpaceX wanted to test its new Crew Dragon capsule, it sent Little Earth. When the Russians wanted to test their new Soyuz upgrade, they sent a villain from a bad science fiction movie.)
https://www.euronews.com/2019/08/22/watc...new-rocket
The Russians call their robot FEDOR. (Not Arnold.)
Like all terminators, it's good with a gun:
I like our cubical American space-bees better.