I tell you, because I've worked with this, and it's this gantry in a room set up to simulate what you might see on the space station. And this gantry allows this free-flyer to move in a full six degree of freedom motion across the module in much the way it would in space. So the gantry 's canceling out the gravity and allowing this to move under its own propulsion and navigate across this mock up of the space station.
And this gantry allows this free-flyer to move in a full six degree of freedom motion across the module in much the way it would in space. So the gantry 's canceling out the gravity and allowing this to move under its own propulsion and navigate across this mock up of the space station. You can tell this, back in the late '90s, they were looking at vision-based navigation.
too so to start off there's basically five components to a 3D printer um you got the Gantry and the frame sometimes they're they're together uh but the kentry Gantry is what makes everything move in 3D space um the extruder is what kind of spits out the material basically
object that you that the machine outputs right so let's jump in there so first uh you have the Gantry and something about what's cool about 3D space is there's many ways to deal with 3D space in a mechanical way um so if you're trying to make a 3D printer you kind of have to decide decide the pros and cons of what
mechanical way um so if you're trying to make a 3D printer you kind of have to decide decide the pros and cons of what kind of Gantry system you want for what kind of advantages uh that you want to create for the machine that you want to create um because they all have their little pros and cons and there's a few more details about all these that I'm
going to talk over uh talk about um but I'm going to give you kind of the basics of what each Gantry system how it helps or maybe it's not so good vice versa so um first of all there's a pretty much three basic sets of how to move in 3D
down or or or you can move everything up that whole Gantry up um so the the this is one of the probably the best ways to make a 3D printer it has the most advantages I think um as far as uh you know getting a really good output of
that's why they do that so it was very interesting to find stuff like that out um all right um so another Gantry system that exists there's a few a couple other ones um is called a Delta machine I don't know if you guys seen these type of 3D printers um basically
And here are different aspects of Astrobee. And like I was talking about earlier with our gantry micro-gravity test facility, we have the world's greatest crane game.
And here are different aspects of Astrobee. This is it. So we have this gantry moving around, just like you saw earlier with the PSA free-flyer.
And the three finalists are Shepard, Grissom, and John Glenn. And for the very first time, even though that he'd been through all of that before, the gantry that supported the rocket
And whilst much of it is automated in terms of Kong's position on stage-- and Kong is essentially suspended by what we call Kong's apparatus, which is this-- it's like a gantry crane above him, which has this disk which houses all the winches that hold his 2000 pounds.
This is a lab we have at Ames that is basically the world's greatest crane game. I tell you, because I've worked with this, and it's this gantry in a room set up to simulate what you might see on the space station. And this gantry allows this free-flyer to move in a full six degree of freedom motion across the module in much the way it would in space.
That meant he would enter the cockpit last with Borman climbing in first to the left hand seat and then Anders into to the right hand seat. And that, in turn, gave Lovell a moment alone on the scaffold-like gantry at the top of the rocket, waiting for his crewmates to settle into position.