Robots in Space (ePub)
Technology, Evolution, and Interplanetary Travel
(Sprache: Englisch)
A look into the history of space exploration and its possible future, and just where exactly robotics fit into it all.
Given the near incomprehensible enormity of the universe, it appears almost inevitable that humankind will one day find a planet that...
Given the near incomprehensible enormity of the universe, it appears almost inevitable that humankind will one day find a planet that...
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A look into the history of space exploration and its possible future, and just where exactly robotics fit into it all.
Given the near incomprehensible enormity of the universe, it appears almost inevitable that humankind will one day find a planet that appears to be much like the Earth. This discovery will no doubt reignite the lure of interplanetary travel. Will we be up to the task? And, given our limited resources, biological constraints, and the general hostility of space, what shape should we expect such expeditions to take?
InRobots in Space,Roger Launius and Howard McCurdy tackle these questions with rigorous scholarship and disciplined imagination, jumping comfortably among the worlds of rocketry, engineering, public policy, and science fantasy to expound upon the possibilities and improbabilities involved in trekking across the Milky Way and beyond. They survey the literature-fictional as well as academic studies-and outline the progress of space programs in the United States and other nations. They also assess the current state of affairs to offer a conclusion startling only to those who haven't spent time with Asimov, Heinlein, and Clarke: to traverse the cosmos, humans must embrace and entwine themselves with advanced robotic technologies ...
2008 Outstanding Academic Title,Choice Magazine
Praise for Robots in Space
"This short volume manages to capture the history of U.S. space flight, to explain the underpinnings of U.S. space policy and to plot out the possibilities for our future in space in a style that most anyone can enjoy." -Andrew McMichael, Park City Daily News
Given the near incomprehensible enormity of the universe, it appears almost inevitable that humankind will one day find a planet that appears to be much like the Earth. This discovery will no doubt reignite the lure of interplanetary travel. Will we be up to the task? And, given our limited resources, biological constraints, and the general hostility of space, what shape should we expect such expeditions to take?
InRobots in Space,Roger Launius and Howard McCurdy tackle these questions with rigorous scholarship and disciplined imagination, jumping comfortably among the worlds of rocketry, engineering, public policy, and science fantasy to expound upon the possibilities and improbabilities involved in trekking across the Milky Way and beyond. They survey the literature-fictional as well as academic studies-and outline the progress of space programs in the United States and other nations. They also assess the current state of affairs to offer a conclusion startling only to those who haven't spent time with Asimov, Heinlein, and Clarke: to traverse the cosmos, humans must embrace and entwine themselves with advanced robotic technologies ...
2008 Outstanding Academic Title,Choice Magazine
Praise for Robots in Space
"This short volume manages to capture the history of U.S. space flight, to explain the underpinnings of U.S. space policy and to plot out the possibilities for our future in space in a style that most anyone can enjoy." -Andrew McMichael, Park City Daily News
Autoren-Porträt von Roger D. Launius
Roger D. Launius is a senior curator at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum and the former chief historian of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He has authored and coauthored several books on space exploration, most recently The Smithsonian Atlas of Space Exploration. Howard E. McCurdy is a professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University and the author of Faster, Better, Cheaper: Low-Cost Innovation in the U.S. Space Program and Space and the American Imagination, second edition, both published by Johns Hopkins.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Roger D. Launius
- Englisch
- Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
- ISBN-10: 0801898447
- ISBN-13: 9780801898440
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