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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Launius, Roger D.
Other Authors: McCurdy, Howard E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
Series:New series in NASA history.
Subjects:
Robots.
Space robotics.
Online Access:Table of contents only
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Table of 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.