Robots in space : technology, evolution, and interplanetary travel / / Roger D. Launius and Howard E. McCurdy
(Visualizza in formato marc)
(Visualizza in BIBFRAME)
| Autore: |
Launius Roger D
|
| Titolo: |
Robots in space : technology, evolution, and interplanetary travel / / Roger D. Launius and Howard E. McCurdy
|
| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 629.4 |
| Soggetto topico: | Robots |
| Space robotics | |
| Altri autori: |
McCurdyHoward E
|
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Robots in space |
| ISBN: | 0-8018-9844-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910815586603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
New series in NASA history.