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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    Title :

    Robots in space : technology, evolution, and interplanetary travel


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2008


    Size :

    XX, 313 S.


    Remarks:

    graph. Darst.
    Includes bibliographical references and index
    Digital preservation by Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) / Leibniz-Informationszentrum Technik und Naturwissenschaften und Universitätsbibliothek



    Type of media :

    Book


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    DDC:    629.4
    BKL:    55.50 Luftfahrzeugtechnik / 50.25 Robotertechnik
    RVK:    ZO 8200 / US 9500



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