You could own this dilapidated 1960s NASA robot - CNET

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The Power-Driven Articulated Dummy is a strange aside in NASA's space race story, and now you can own it. The space suit testing robot is going up for grabs as part of RR Auctions' Remarkable Rarities Auction.

The human body is not designed for space.

As we get into higher and higher altitudes, as air pressure lowers and eventually becomes the vacuum of space, the survival rate of an unprotected human body lowers. This is why astronauts wear those chunky suits as they move around in space. Those suits, among other things, provide a stable internal pressure that keeps the wearer's body from swelling up from the effects of decompression.

This is where the Power-Driven Articulated Dummy came into the space race. Designed for NASA by the IIT Research Institute, the hydraulically powered robot was designed for testing space suits, hopefully allowing for human test subjects to be removed from the process. This is because a robot allows for the collection of qualitative data, such as exactly how much pressure is being applied by the suit.

Moreover, human subjects would be subjected to pain and danger that use of a robot could eradicate.