Nancy_A writes "There might be a new well-liked hang-out for astronauts aboard the International Space Station later this year. The Leonardo Multi Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) will become a durable module on the station, and will be brought up on the STS-133 mission, bent upon for September 2010. And if might provide a haven for astronauts to get away from it all. 'The thought is, the PMM might become sort of a "man cave",' said Mike Kinslow, the Boeing payload manager out at Kennedy Space Center. "It won't have all the background noise of fans, cd players and other equipment running like in the laboratories, so it will be a quieter sky that might appeal to the astronauts during their off-duty hours.' Plus, NASA's Robonaut 2, or R2 will be brought up on the same flight. Any chance R2 could be programmed to serve drinks or bring food into the man cave?"

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