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.
Robots in space : technology, evolution, and interplanetary travel by Roger D. Launius. ISBN 9780801887086. Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.