Astronaut and Robonaut shake hands on the ISS
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Astronaut Dan Burbank and NASA's Robonaut 2 shake hands on the ISS (Photo: NASA)
Dan Burbank and Robonaut 2 aboard the ISS (Photo: NASA)
Dan Burbank and Robonaut 2 aboard the ISS (Photo: NASA)
Astronaut Dan Burbank and NASA's Robonaut 2 shake hands in the ISS (Photo: NASA)
Article Summary
History is full of famous handshakes that symbolize a permanent change in the status quo. The 1945 Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin triple handshake. The 1961 Kennedy-Khrushchev handshake. The 1972 Nixon-Mao handshake. The 1993 Rabin-Arafat handshake. The 2012 Burbank-R2 handshake? This historic clasping took place on February 15, 2012, when NASA's Robonaut 2 (nicknamed R2) humanoid robot greeted Commander Dan Burbank aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in the first "man-machine" handshake in space.
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