Screen LibraryRobots in space：technology, evolution, and interplanetary travel
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Johns Hopkins University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Baltimore |
| Publication Dates: | 2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
New series in NASA history |
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| Carrier Form: | xx, 313 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780801887086 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0801887089 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | TP249 |
| CLC: |
TP249 V447 |
| Call Number: | V447/L376 |
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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. |