{"id":133669,"date":"2022-01-06T19:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T03:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/nasas-first-artemis-moon-mission-will-have-a-virtual-astronaut-amazons-alexa"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T03:22:18","slug":"nasas-first-artemis-moon-mission-will-have-a-virtual-astronaut-amazons-alexa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/nasas-first-artemis-moon-mission-will-have-a-virtual-astronaut-amazons-alexa","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s first Artemis moon mission will have a virtual astronaut: Amazon\u2019s Alexa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-first-artemis-moon-mission-will-have-a-virtual-astronaut-amazons-alexa2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Artemis 1 mission, slated for take off as soon as this March, aims to send an Orion spacecraft around the moon. The cabin will be largely empty, save for an a interactive tablet that has been dubbed \u201cCallisto,\u201d which will sit propped up to face an astronaut mannequin. Callisto is essentially a touch-screen device that features reconfigured versions of Alexa, Amazon\u2019s voice assistant, and Cisco\u2019s teleconferencing platform WebEx.<\/p>\n<p>Among the many aspects that will be closely watched on the ground \u2014 at least by the group behind this Alexa experiment \u2014 is how the virtual assistant performs in space. And if nothing else, it\u2019ll be some well-placed advertising.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all part of a collaboration between Amazon, (<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=AMZN&source=story_quote_link\" class=\"\">AMZN<\/a>) Cisco (<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=CSCO&source=story_quote_link\" class=\"\">CSCO<\/a>) 0, and Lockheed Martin (<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=LMT&source=story_quote_link\" class=\"\">LMT<\/a>) 0, which built the Orion capsule for NASA. Lockheed approached the other two companies with the idea of developing a virtual assistant about three years ago, the companies said, and they are paying the full cost of including the virtual assistant on the Artemis 1 mission. Lockheed is also reimbursing NASA for any help the agency has lent on this project through an arrangement called a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/files\/NAII_1050-1C_NASA_Advisory_Implementing_Instruction_Space_Act_Agreements_Guide_Tagged.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Space Act Agreement<\/a>, which allows the space agency to be compensated for expertise or resources it gives to companies working on certain space-related projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Artemis 1 mission, slated for take off as soon as this March, aims to send an Orion spacecraft around the moon. The cabin will be largely empty, save for an a interactive tablet that has been dubbed \u201cCallisto,\u201d which will sit propped up to face an astronaut mannequin. Callisto is essentially a touch-screen device [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133669","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}