Credit Hussain Manawer

That is what I do, I m a poet.

Here's Manawer performing it in front of the judges and a live audience

The Lunar Precursor Robotic Program (LPRP) is a program of robotic spacecraft missions which NASA will use to prepare for future Moon landings.

Manawer is of Pakistani descent but grew up in Essex, England.

Robotics algorithms for moving limbs and grasping objects use local searches in configuration space.

There was a brief clip Narrator A mission to explore under the ice of Europa would be the ultimate robotic challenge.

Competing with the increasingly competent robotic labor force will require people to enhance their technology quotient.

Reversing the robotic gigantism of banking ought to be the top priority for reform.

British Muslim mental health activist Hussain Manawer won a trip aboard a commercial spacecraft.

The landscape facilitates advances in marine biology, oceanography, underwater robotic technology, astronomy, geology and geophysics, agriculture, aquaculture and tropical medicine.

The expression was introduced by Gerardo Beni and Jing Wang in 1989, in the context of cellular robotic systems.

Manawer now speaks out regularly about mental health and hopes his trip to space will allow him more opportunities to bring it up.

Manawer says he never dreamed of going to space, and while he s grateful for the opportunity he s still not sure if space travel is for him.

Hussain Manawer thinks he is jinxed he gets stopped so often. He has been questioned at airports from LA to Macedonia, but jokes he doesn t get stopped anymore because they all know him now.

And all of these robotic missions are part of a bigger human journey a voyage to understand something, to get a sense of our cosmic place, to understand something of our origins, and how Earth, our planet, and we, living on it, came to be.

And after a poem he wrote won him a space flight, he received widespread attention when during a speech in Thailand he said, My name is Hussain Manawer, and I am not a terrorist. Manawer says he said it in response to the many racial profiling incidences he has experienced.

Since winning the contest, Manawer, 26, has been giving talks to raise awareness on the subject. He became passionate about the issue after a friend was diagnosed with depression, but felt too uncomfortable disclosing it to his family.