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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: New series in NASA historyPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008.Description: xx, 313 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 629.4 22
LOC classification:
  • TJ211 .L38 2008eb
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-301) and index.

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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