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Record Nr.

UNINA9910972714103321

Autore

Launius Roger D

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8018-9844-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Collana

New series in NASA history

Altri autori (Persone)

McCurdyHoward E

Disciplina

629.4

Soggetti

Robots

Space robotics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-301) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Rather than asking us to suspend disbelief, Robots in Space demands that we accept facts as they evolve.