Star Wars' BB-8 takes a trip to Nasa and poses for selfies in front of robots

Nasa received a special visitor this week from a galaxy far, far away, and their spherical guest was right at home with the agency's space robots. BB-8 paid a visit to Nasa's Jet Propulsion Lab where it posed for selfies and learned about Earth robots and the journey to Mars. The droid's fieldtrip was revealed on the space agency's Twitter page, and it can be seen in numerous face-to-face interactions with Nasa technologies. Nasa received a special visitor this week from a galaxy far, far away, and their spherical guest was right at home with the agency's space robots R2-D2 always had C-3PO by his side to offer many words of wisdom; now, his successor BB-8 may be scoping out a companion of his own. In the humorous photos released by Nasa, BB-8 can even be seen wearing its own guest pass.