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Robots in space : technology, evolution, and interplanetary travel / Roger D. Launius and Howard E. McCurdy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Launius, Roger D.
- 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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