DefenseTech’s Noah Shachtman has a short write-up about this cute little device that wraps up half-a-century’s worth of science-fiction ideas into one floating red jet-powered sphere. Called the ‘Personal Satellite Assistant,’ the goal of the program is to provide an intelligent assistant to the astronauts who need both hands free to perform experiments (by the way, still haven’t seen the results of those sex in space tests, NASA) and to monitor conditions about the space craft and warn if anything goes awry. It even can move around by blasting jets of air — plenty of power to bop around in weightlessness. There’s no promise the PSA will ever hit the deep blacks skies, but if we can’t have zero-G orgy videos, the least NASA could do is let our space stations have pets.
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