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A robotic challenge that's really out there
Check out the story of unidentified space junk that might delay the orbiter's scheduled return. Particularly the mission commander's comment that there is a "[b]ig interest in whether we're going to be doing any robotics tomorrow," referring to the possibility of using the arm to search for the potentially threatening debris.
Did someone drop a fastener?
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
 since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)
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