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Author:
Launius, Roger D.
Title:
Robots in space : technology, evolution, and interplanetary travel / Roger D. Launius and Howard E. McCurdy.
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press,
Copyright Date:
2008
Description:
xx, 313 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Robots.
Space robotics.
Robots.
Robotique spatiale.
Other Authors:
McCurdy, Howard E.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-301) and index.
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.
Series:
New series in NASA history
ISBN:
0801887089 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780801887086 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN:
2007019374
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)
UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)

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