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.
The Marines took one look at little Audie - he was five feet five inches tall and one hundred ten pounds - and determined that he was too small for the service. The Navy guys told him the same thing. The Army had no qualms about throwing Murphy into the meat grinder however, and shipped him off to North Africa as part of the US 3rd Infantry Division.