ESA astronaut Tim Peake controls rover from space

On 29 April 2016, ESA astronaut Tim Peake on the International Space Station took control of a rover, nicknamed ’Bridget’, in the UK and over two hours drove it into a simulated cave and found and identified targets despite the dark and limited feedback information. Before and after Tim came online from the orbiting Station, control of the rover was passed several times between engineers at the Airbus D&S ‘Mars Yard’ in Stevenage, UK, Belgium’s ISS User Support Centre in Brussels and ESA’s ESOC operations