The purpose of this development program was to design, fabricate, and test a prototype variable flexibility tether system, which by virtue of its controllable rigidity and remotely actuated manipulator, may be used as a simple safety tether, a translation aid, an astronaut attachment and positioning tool and a means of moving and recovering objects in space. (Author)


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