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The process of space travel, from brainstorming to landing, is possible through a mere system of steps. While the number of steps needed to plan a successful mission might rank in the hundreds of millions, it is all performed very methodically and precisely. Such care is needed when you’re dealing with gadgets and machinery that costs well into the billions of dollars. Even if the transportation of a robotic astronaut might sound like a simple enough task for a team of highly-trained engineers, it’s yet another obstacle of necessary precision and diligence.
NASA explains the process they went through to get Robonaut 2 from the safe and sterile confines of the Space Station Processing Facility to the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center, including its special packaging in SLEEPR, or the Structural Launch Enclosure to Effectively Protect Robonaut. It’s sort of like a really secure and extreme version of UPS, except without the hideously brown uniforms.
