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The end of astronauts : why robots are the future of exploration / Donald Goldsmith and Martin Rees.
LIBRA TL1097 .G647 2022
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goldsmith, Donald, author.
- Rees, Martin J., 1942- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Space robotics--United States.
- Space robotics.
- Outer space--Exploration--United States.
- Outer space.
- Exploration of outer space.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 185 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- "Governments, companies, and private investors spend billions on astronaut-dependent space travel, but the work is dangerous and unhealthy to human bodies-so that executing missions may simply not be worth the cost. The future will be one of robots, heirs to the Perseverance rover on Mars, equipped with artificial intelligence and capable of autonomous exploration"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Why Explore?
- 2. Organizing Space
- 3. Near-Earth Orbit
- 4. The Moon
- 5. Mars
- 6. Asteroids
- 7. Space Colonization
- 8. The Global Costs of Space Exploration
- 9. Space Law.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780674257726
- 0674257723
- OCLC:
- 1266218790
- Publisher Number:
- 40031045513
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