New spacecraft auto docking technology tested

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Channel: NASA Langley Research Center · 2011 · Science & Technology

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On STS-134 astronauts are testing out a new technology that will make it easier and safer for spacecraft to dock to the International Space Station.  
NASA's Langley Research Center played a major role in the development of that technology, called the Sensor Test for Orion Relative/Navigation Mitigation (STORRM).

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