Robots in space : technology, evolution, and interplanetary travel /
Examines the future of space missions and spaceflight through an examiniation of history and current science.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
©2008.
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| Series: | New series in NASA history.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : a false dichotomy
- The human/robot debate
- Human spaceflight as utopia
- Promoting the human dimension
- Robotic spaceflight in popular culture
- The new space race
- Interstellar flight and the human future in space
- Homo sapiens, transhumanism, and the postbiological universe
- An alternative paradigm?
- Appendix : Inadequate words.
