All Entries Tagged With: "Elon Musk"

KAKU ON BLUE ORIGIN NEW SHEPARD

Blue Origin‘s first human passengers, billionaire founder Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark Bezos, 82-year-old Mercury 13 pioneer Wally Funk, and 18-year-old paying customer Oliver Daemen, achieved a historic milestone for the burgeoning private space travel industry in their successful launch to suborbital space and back on July 20th, 2021.

Bestselling author and theoretical physicist, Dr. Michio Kaku appeared on FOX Business Tonight to discuss the significance of this achievement and what he describes as a new vision for our race to space. WATCH NOW!

KAKU ON CHINA LUNAR MISSION

China has successfully launched its Chang’e-5 space mission, an effort to make China the first nation in more than four decades to bring lunar rock and soil samples back to the Earth. The program’s greater ambitions are to culminate with an international lunar research station and ultimately a human colony on the Moon by the 2030s.

Futurist and theoretical physicist, Dr. Michio Kaku, appeared on FOX Business to share his current thoughts and insights on China’s mission to the Moon, the new arms race here on Earth, and renewed interest in outer space by the private sector. WATCH NOW!

KAKU ON NEW SPACE POLICY DIRECTIVE

In another example of life imitating art, the USA may soon create a real-world variation of STAR TREK‘s Starfleet. Today President Trump signed Space Policy Directive-3, a presidential memorandum aimed at setting national policy on Space Traffic Management (STM) and Space Situational Awareness (SSA). The President’s goal is to expand the national armed forces with a sixth branch of the military, the Space Force. Famed futurist and theoretical physicist, Dr. Michio Kaku, joins Neil Cavuto on FOX Business with more insights. WATCH NOW!

KAKU ON MUSK-ZUCKERBERG AI DEBATE

Does Artificial Intelligence represent a major threat to humankind or a major opportunity? Tesla & SpaceX visionary, Elon Musk believes the time is now to sound the alarms and assemble top thinkers and regulators with the mandate to address and contain the rising threat head-on. In sharp contrast, Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, is bullish on AI and dismissive of alarmists like Musk. So, who has it right? Physicist and Futurist, Dr. Michio Kaku returns to CNN International’s ‘Quest Means Business’ to consider all sides of the debate and contribute his own insights. WATCH NOW!

KAKU ON BILLIONAIRE SPACE RACE

Which billionaire will get there first? SpaceX and Tesla CEO, Elon Musk versus Blue Origin and Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos? Both are engaged in what many are calling a new kind of space race. Famed futurist and theoretical physicist, Dr. Michio Kaku, visits with Kennedy on FOX Business to discuss the so-called "billionaire space race" that’s behind the United States of America’s recently renewed prowess in space with their daring and visionary endeavors. WATCH NOW!

KAKU ON THE MARS GENERATION MOVIE

"The Mars Generation" is a documentary film that follows the science, politics, and philosophy of humankind’s future journey to Mars. Young trainees at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center prepare to become astronauts and astrophysicists training on everything from spaceship technology to running through worst-case simulations, and testing out anti-gravity equipment. Featuring scientific luminaries Elon Musk, Dr. Michio Kaku, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Bill Nye, "The Mars Generation" debuts May 5th, 2017 only on NETFLIX. WATCH THE TRAILER!

KAKU ON FUTURE SPACE TOURISM

The new age of space tourism is fast approaching, thanks to disruptive innovations in propulsion and craft reuse. These factors are driving costs down and demand up. Theoretical physicist, Dr. Michio Kaku, returns to Kennedy on FOX Business to discuss the realities of private space exploration. How long before it becomes a viable travel option and how much will it cost average consumers to take to the stars? WATCH NOW!

KAKU ON LATEST SPACEX EXPLOSION

On the heels of a third SpaceX rocket launch failure, CBSN, the "Always On" online news network from CBS NEWS, invited Dr. Michio Kaku to discuss the matter with CBSN‘s Jeff Glor. What are the ramifications of this accident? Does it pose any future impact on SpaceX‘s or NASA‘s plans for the International Space Station? What does this setback suggest about the ongoing commercialization of space? WATCH NOW!

KAKU ON TESLA POWERWALL BATTERY

Dr. Michio Kaku returns to CNN International’s ‘Quest Means Business’ to discuss Tesla Motors‘ recent push into new frontiers for its energy storage technology and know-how; going beyond the realm of Tesla CEO, Elon Musk‘s, vision for an all-electric car and launching an off-shoot brand — Tesla Energy.

Kaku is an advocate of the venture, asserting that Musk is "onto something" with this unveiling, further affirming that an advancement in energy storage like that presented by Tesla Powerwall has the potential to be a "game changer" for solar, wind, and renewable energy initiatives. WATCH NOW!