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Robots in space : technology, evolution, and interplanetary travel / Roger D. Launius and Howard E. McCurdy.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Launius, Roger D.
Contributor:
McCurdy, Howard E.
Series:
New series in NASA history.
New series in NASA history
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Robots.
Space robotics.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (336 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Rather than asking us to suspend disbelief, Robots in Space demands that we accept facts as they evolve.
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.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-301) and index.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
0-8018-9844-7
OCLC:
649906420

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