What is Earthy controlling in the ISS cupola?

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ScienceAlert.com's Astronauts on The Space Station Liked SpaceX's 'Earthy' Toy So Much They Kidnapped It shows a series of photos of Earthy, the new plushy member of the ISS crew.

In the photo below Earthy has one hand on what looks like a pretty important joystick control and one foot on a control panel. Both the joystick and some of the buttons have metal guards around them to protect from accidental manipulation.

What are the joystick and control panel for; what do they do?

Photo: Source Anne McClain/NASA

Organic Marble · Accepted Answer · 2019-03-11T03:10:32.860

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That is the space station robot arm control station aka the Robotics Workstation - one of two aboard the ISS. There's a long answer about its controls on the site already: (What is the user interface of SSRMS)

Earthy is holding the Translational Hand Controller and her feet are resting on the Display and Control Panel.

edited Mar 11 '19 at 03:10

answered Mar 11 '19 at 02:47

Organic Marble

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Interesting that translational hand controllers look pretty much the same today as in the Apollo era. – DrSheldon Aug 07 '19 at 08:55
Yep, and they look just like the ones on shuttle. – Organic Marble Aug 07 '19 at 10:02
I thought they were T-shaped. – ikrase Apr 20 '20 at 19:56
@Ikrase not in shuttle and ISS. http://www.collectspace.com/images/news-062611a/011.jpg Looks like Apollo's was though. https://history.nasa.gov/alsj/tnD7884HandContrlr.pdf – Organic Marble Apr 20 '20 at 20:54

What is Earthy controlling in the ISS cupola?

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