Mission to Mars, Part 2

by Jim Haas

10 January 2014

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I worked for a couple of years for a NASA subcontractor, and it’s not hard to believe that the paperwork pile could up so that it cleared the atmosphere. As always, remember you can see more at Nate’s Website.

tags: human-robot interaction, humanoid, robot, Space

Jim Haas Nate the Robot is a webcomic about an ordinary robot trying to make it in a human world. See more at natetherobot.com.

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