End of astronauts : why robots are the future of exploration
- Cambridge : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022
- 185 p.; ill. 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 with artificial intelligence and capable of autonomous exploration.