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Robots in space technology, evolution, and interplanetary travel

Title
Robots in space [electronic resource] : technology, evolution, and interplanetary travel / Roger D. Launius and Howard E. McCurdy.
Author
Launius, Roger D.
Publication
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

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Additional Authors
McCurdy, Howard E.
Description
1 online resource (xx, 313 p.) : ill.
Series Statement
New series in NASA history
Uniform Title
Robots in space (Online)
Alternative Title
Robots in space (Online)
Subject
  • Robots
  • Space robotics
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-301) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2007019374
OCLC
ssj0000399882
Author
Launius, Roger D.
Title
Robots in space [electronic resource] : technology, evolution, and interplanetary travel / Roger D. Launius and Howard E. McCurdy.
Imprint
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
Series
New series in NASA history
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-301) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
McCurdy, Howard E.
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