1959 26 Apr. 4 a/2 The war of the near future probably will have to be fought entirely by robot astronauts.
1961 14 Sept. 1/4 Technicians at Cape Canaveral, Florida, successfully sent a Project Mercury space capsule carrying a robot astronaut and recovered it from the Atlantic.
2002 S. Choron & H. Choron 318 A robot astronaut gone berserk battles an outer space queen and an army of midgets.