The end of astronauts : why robots are the future of exploration
by Goldsmith, Donald (Author), Rees, Martin J., 1942- (Author)
Summary
"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... Full description
- 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.