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Robots in Space : Technology, Evolution, and Interplanetary Travel.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: New Series in NASA History SeriesPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (334 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801898440
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Robots in SpaceDDC classification:
  • 629.4
LOC classification:
  • TJ211.L38
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A False Dichotomy -- 1 The Human/Robot Debate -- 2 Human Spaceflight as Utopia -- 3 Promoting the Human Dimension -- 4 Robotic Spaceflight in Popular Culture -- 5 The New Space Race -- 6 Interstellar Flight and the Human Future in Space -- 7 Homo sapiens, Transhumanism, and the Postbiological Universe -- 8 An Alternative Paradigm? -- Appendix: Inadequate Words -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Rather than asking us to suspend disbelief, Robots in Space demands that we accept facts as they evolve.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A False Dichotomy -- 1 The Human/Robot Debate -- 2 Human Spaceflight as Utopia -- 3 Promoting the Human Dimension -- 4 Robotic Spaceflight in Popular Culture -- 5 The New Space Race -- 6 Interstellar Flight and the Human Future in Space -- 7 Homo sapiens, Transhumanism, and the Postbiological Universe -- 8 An Alternative Paradigm? -- Appendix: Inadequate Words -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

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

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