The end of astronauts why robots are the future of exploration
"Governments, companies, and private investors spend billions on astronaut-dependent space travel, but the work is dangerous and unhealthy to human bodies-so that executing missions may simply not be worth the cost. The future will be one of robots, heirs to the Perseverance rover on Mars, equipped...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: From fireworks to spaceflight
- Why explore?
- Organizing space
- Near-earth orbit
- The moon
- Mars
- Asteroids
- Space colonization
- Costs and prospects of space exploration
- Space law
- Epilogue: Perspectives on space exploration in 2040-and far beyond.
