Robots in space : technology, evolution, and interplanetary travel

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Robots in space : technology, evolution, and interplanetary travel

Roger D. Launius and Howard E. McCurdy

(New series in NASA history)

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008

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Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-301) and index

Contents of Works

  • 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

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Details

  • NCID
    BA86460799
  • ISBN
    • 9780801887086
  • LCCN
    2007019374
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Baltimore
  • Pages/Volumes
    xx, 313 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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