In August 1997, a flight demonstration test of the first Japanese space robot arm was conducted aboard the Space Shuttle, as a precursor mission of the International Space Station.

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	Results of the Manipulator Flight Demonstration
	Papers presented at the Manipulator Demonstration Symposium Project
	On the Results of the Manipulator Flight Demonstration (MFD) Project Adobe Acrobat PD‚e file (9.58KB) On the Results of the MFD Flight Operations Adobe Acrobat PD‚e file (7.82KB)
	MFD Status Report
	Outline
	The Robot Arm is an Important Element of the Japanese Experiment Module MFD: Japan's First Robot Arm Flight Demonstration Test Outline of the MFD Robot Arm Mission Outline of Piggyback Experiments Onboard the MFD Payload - To Acquire Advanced Technologies for Future Space Utilization - MFD Operations Other Missions and Crew Members on STS-85 LINKS

Last Updated : June 2, 1998

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