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KAKU ON BLUE ORIGIN NEW SHEPARD

Click for more FOX Business 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

Click to Show Only FOX Business 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

Click to Show Only FOX Business 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 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY, the newest New York Times Bestseller from famed Physicist and Futurist Dr. Michio Kaku continues to garner public attention and media accolades. Kaku‘s landmark work begins with this provocative pronouncement: "Either we must leave the Earth or we will perish."

National Geographic invited Dr. Kaku to take part in a telephonic interview with Simon Worrall for his column, BOOK TALK to discuss the new book’s key themes. READ ARTICLE NOW!

KAKU ON MACH: THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY

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Physicist and Futurist Dr. Michio Kaku‘s new book, THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY is now officially released and already a New York Times Bestseller. NBC News MACH, invited Dr. Kaku for a one-on-one interview to talk about the book and explore some of its bold ideas. MACH is a digital news source from NBC NEWS that charts the future, bringing you the scientific discoveries and technological innovations that are transforming our lives. READ ARTICLE NOW!

KAKU ON THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY

Click for more CBS This Morning CBS News science and futurist contributor, Dr. Michio Kaku‘s new book, The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth is officially released and available for purchase. CBS This Morning invited Kaku to talk about his bold assertions on the future fate of humankind. WATCH NOW!

KAKU ON WSJ: TO THE MOON, MARS AND BEYOND

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With the imminent release of Dr. Michio Kaku‘s new book, The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth and historic launch of SpaceX‘s reusable Falcon Heavy rocket, the Wall Street Journal invited Dr. Kaku to share his insights as a physicist, futurist, and bestselling author with WSJ subscribers in an essay entitled "To the Moon, Mars and Beyond: A new spirit of exploration, fueled by tech entrepreneurs, big plans at NASA and worries about the fate of the Earth." The article is out now. READ ARTICLE NOW!

KAKU ON MUSK-ZUCKERBERG AI DEBATE

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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

Click to Show Only FOX BusinessWhich 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

Click for more Netflix"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

Click to Show Only FOX BusinessThe 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 HUMANS TO MARS BY 2030

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Dr. Michio Kaku returns to CNN International to discuss President Barack Obama‘s CNN op-ed in which Mr. Obama affirmed America’s commitment to "send humans to Mars by the 2030’s with the ultimate ambition to one day remain there for an extended time."

Achieving this, he added, will "require continued cooperation between government and private innovators." Now in the final months of his eight-year presidency, Obama looks to set in motion plans, which could pan out to be a key part of his legacy. Dr. Kaku offers his assessment on the progress scientists are making in pursuit of Mission Mars. WATCH NOW!

NASA: LIQUID WATER FOUND ON MARS

Click to Visit CBS This MorningThis week NASA announced that it has discovered a source of free-flowing water on the surface of the planet Mars, a breakthrough finding that could forever change how human beings view our celestial neighbor. Famed physicist/futurist and CBS News science contributor, Dr. Michio Kaku told ‘CBS This Morning’ that, with this, NASA may have “hit the jackpot.”

Public fascination with Mars has increased ever since NASA launched its unmanned rover Curiosity, which continually sends back images of the Martian landscape. Once thought to be too hostile to support life, the discovery of liquid water alters our understanding not only of the origins of the red planet but in the future potential for an eventual human presence on Mars. “It changes everything,” said Kaku, “It means that this liquid water can be used for, perhaps, irrigation, drinking water, and even rocket fuel.” WATCH NOW!

KAKU ON LATEST SPACEX EXPLOSION

Click to Visit CBSNOn 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!

MOON FOR SALE? THE NEW SPACE RACE

Click to Visit MSNBCThe FAA’s Office of the Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation, known as the AST, has approved private sector operations on the Moon. All signs indicate that we are in the midst of a new kind of space race — wherein the private sector seeks to play a starring role.

Dr. Michio Kaku rejoins Ed Schultz, on MSNBC’s ‘The Ed Show’ to discuss the key players, like Bigelow Aerospace and SpaceX, and the bold initiatives underway that will shape the future of the final frontier. WATCH NOW!

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