{"id":110423,"date":"2020-07-24T20:07:39","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T03:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/nasas-robot-hotel-gets-its-occupants"},"modified":"2020-07-24T20:07:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T03:07:39","slug":"nasas-robot-hotel-gets-its-occupants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/nasas-robot-hotel-gets-its-occupants","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s \u2018Robot Hotel\u2019 Gets Its Occupants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-robot-hotel-gets-its-occupants2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Storage is just as important aboard the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/main\/index.html\">International Space Station<\/a> as it is on Earth. While the space station is about the size of a football field, the living space inside is much smaller than that. Just as you wouldn\u2019t store garden tools in a house when you could store them in a shed outside, astronauts now have a \u201chousing unit\u201d in which they can store tools for use on the exterior of the space station.<\/p>\n<p>On Dec. 5, 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2019\/nasa-launching-rits-a-robot-hotel-to-the-international-space-station\">a protective storage unit<\/a> for robotic tools called Robotic Tool Stowage (RiTS) was among the items launched to station as part of SpaceX\u2019s 19<sup>th<\/sup> commercial resupply services mission for NASA. As part of a spacewalk on July 21, NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Chris Cassidy installed the \u201crobot hotel\u201d where the tools are stored to the station\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/structure\/elements\/mobile-base-system\/\">Mobile Base System<\/a> (MBS), where it will remain a permanent fixture. The MBS is a moveable platform that provides power to the external robots. This special location allows RiTS to traverse around the station alongside a robot that will use the tools it stores.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/thumbnails\/image\/mbs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" typeof=\"foaf: Image\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-robot-hotel-gets-its-occupants3.jpg\" width=\"985\" height=\"671\" alt=\"exterior view of portion of ISS, with blue-hued Earth in background\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Storage is just as important aboard the International Space Station as it is on Earth. While the space station is about the size of a football field, the living space inside is much smaller than that. Just as you wouldn\u2019t store garden tools in a house when you could store them in a shed outside, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}