- Introduction: From Fireworks to Spaceflight
- 1. Why Explore?
- 2. Organizing Space
- 3. Near-Earth Orbit
- 4. The Moon
- 5. Mars
- 6. Asteroids
- 7. Space Colonization
- 8. The Global Costs of Space Exploration
- 9. Space Law
- Epilogue: Perspectives on Space Exploration in 2040—and Far Beyond
- Appendix: Timeline of Key Events in Space Exploration
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgments
- Index


The End of Astronauts
Why Robots Are the Future of Exploration
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Publication Date: 04/19/2022
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Awards & Accolades
- Martin Rees Is Winner of the 2016 Erasmus Medal • 2011 Templeton Prize