Types of Space Robots. Remotely operated vehicles (ROV) and remote manipulator system (RMS) are the two major types of space robots. A typical ROV can be a rover moving over the terrain upon landing, a lander operated from a stationary point and is in contact with an extraterrestrial plain or an unmanned spacecraft.
A Myth in Action: The Heroic Life of Audie Murphy, relates the life of a Texas farmboy who enlisted in the Army in 1942. By the end of WWII, 5 6 and barely twenty, he had been field-commissioned and had won more medals for valor than any soldier in American history.
On this day, the most decorated man of the war, American Lt. Audie Murphy, is wounded in France. Born the son of Texas sharecroppers on June 20, 1924, Murphy served three years of active duty, beginning as a private, rising to the rank of staff sergeant, and finally winning a battlefield commission to 2nd lieutenant.