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Space historian sees cyborgs in our future
Humans destined to be multiplanetary, may evolve in unknown ways
- Fifty years after the dawn of the space age, hundreds of people have flown into space. A dozen of those left their boot marks on the moon’s surface, and several nations now are planning to send astronauts back to the moon and then beyond. So you would think the expansion of humanity ever deeper into the cosmos is a sure bet.

But the notion that human explorers are destined to become an interstellar species is far from a sure thing as far as Roger Launius is concerned.

More likely, humans, and the machines they use to explore space, are going to evolve together in ways that are hard to predict at this early stage in the opening of the space frontier, said Launius, an eminent space historian and chair for the Division of Space History at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington.