Robots in space
Launius, Roger D.
Robots in space technology, evolution, and interplanetary travel / [electronic resource] : Roger D. Launius and Howard E. McCurdy. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008. - xx, 313 p. : ill. - New series in NASA history . - New series in NASA history. .
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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Robots.
Space robotics.
Electronic books.
TJ211 / .L38 2008eb
629.4
Robots in space technology, evolution, and interplanetary travel / [electronic resource] : Roger D. Launius and Howard E. McCurdy. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008. - xx, 313 p. : ill. - New series in NASA history . - New series in NASA history. .
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Robots.
Space robotics.
Electronic books.
TJ211 / .L38 2008eb
629.4