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Astronomy and space

Astronomy and space

Human versus machine, in space

17 May 2022
Taken from the May 2022 issue of Physics World.

Andrew Robinson reviews The End of Astronauts: Why Robots Are the Future of Exploration by Donald Goldsmith and Martin Rees

The surface of Mars with wheel tracks in the background and part of the Perseverance Mars rover in the foreground
Hazard avoidance NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover looks back at its wheel tracks. (Courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
When NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars in 2012 and began to explore a crater, it had to be con

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Andrew Robinson is the author of Einstein on the Run: How Britain Saved the World’s Greatest Scientist (Yale University Press)
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