Robots in space : technology, evolution, and interplanetary travel /

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Main Author: Launius, Roger D.
Other Authors: McCurdy, Howard E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012, ©2008.
Edition:Johns Hopkins pbk. ed.
Series:New series in NASA history.
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: A False Dichotomy
  • 1 The Human/Robot Debate
  • 2 Human Spaceflight as Utopia
  • 3 Promoting the Human Dimension
  • 4 Robotic Spaceflight in Popular Culture
  • 5 The New Space Race
  • 6 Interstellar Flight and the Human Future in Space
  • 7 Homo sapiens, Transhumanism, and the Postbiological Universe
  • 8 An Alternative Paradigm?
  • Appendix: Inadequate Words
  • Notes
  • Index
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