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The PMM is the final pressurized module to be attached to the U.S. portion of the space station.
International Space Station Gets New Permanent Storage Unit 2011
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Another interesting piece of hardware scheduled to fly on the PMM is the Robonaut 2, NASA's second generation of dexterous robots with a human-like torso that can work with tools and one day are envisioned to be able to do EVA work outside the ISS.
ISS to get 'Man Cave' Complete with Robot Butler | Universe Today 2010
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Crew members on Tuesday used the space station's robotic arm to maneuver the Permanent Multipurpose Module, or PMM, out of the space shuttle Discovery's payload bay and attach it to the Earth-facing side of the space station's Unity node.
International Space Station Gets New Permanent Storage Unit 2011
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Engineers modified the PMM from a previous cargo carrier - the Italian-built Multipurpose Logistics Module - which traveled to and from the outpost aboard the space shuttle.
International Space Station Gets New Permanent Storage Unit 2011
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A Permanently Manned Moonbase (PMM) is "more viable" than sorties for the simple reason that, once in place, it will have programmatic intertia and require a larger expenditure of political capital to cancel than to continue.
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Like the earlier model, the new PMM is nicknamed Leonardo, after Leonardo da Vinci.
International Space Station Gets New Permanent Storage Unit 2011
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If it's scientific exploration, then you're better off with manned mobile laboratories (anyone remember Apollo's MoLab proposals?), which stand midway between PMM and MTM in cancellability.
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"The thought is, the PMM might become sort of a 'man cave'," said Mike Kinslow, the Boeing payload manager out at Kennedy Space Center.
ISS to get 'Man Cave' Complete with Robot Butler | Universe Today 2010
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The Multi Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) known as Leonardo – which will be going to the ISS on the upcoming STS-131 mission carrying cargo and supplies — will be transformed after the mission into a Permanent Multipurpose Module (PMM), and brought up to stay on the station on STS-133 as a storeroom for supplies.
ISS to get 'Man Cave' Complete with Robot Butler | Universe Today 2010
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The PMM will be berthed on the Node 1 nadir, or Earth-facing port.
ISS to get 'Man Cave' Complete with Robot Butler | Universe Today 2010
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