Handshake started 4 decades of space cooperation 02:42 For more on the most important and iconic moments of the 1970s, watch CNN’s “ The Seventies ,” Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

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There's nothing like a good, firm handshake. Especially when it's with a robot, and you're in space. Yesterday, NASA's Robonaut completed its systems ...

International Space Station Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank completed the first human/robot handshake in space yesterday. (Image Credit: NASA TV) To my knowledge, in the history of human/robot ...

What can we learn from a 45-year-old handshake in space? As we’re on the verge of another space race, Mick O’Hare looks back at the historic greeting between an American astronaut and Russian ...

The commander of the International Space Station, Daniel Burbank, shook hands Wednesday with Robonaut. It's the first handshake ever between a human and a humanoid in space.

In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, Apollo Commander, Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford (in foreground) and Soyuz Commander, Cosmonaut Alexei A. Leonov make their historic handshake in ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronauts and robots have united in space with a healthy handshake. Daniel Burbank, the commander of the international space station, shook hands Wednesday with Robonaut ...

For the first time ever an astronaut and a robot shook hands — in space. After nearly a year of assembly aboard the International Space Station, Robonaut 2 — or R2 as it’s also known ...

Handshake started 4 decades of space cooperation 02:42 For more on the most important and iconic moments of the 1970s, watch CNN’s “ The Seventies ,” Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT.