The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth

by Michio Kaku

OSIRIS-REx,

Ceres,

NASA’s Dawn Mission,

Infrared Telescope Facility,

24 Themis

X.com,

the Interplanetary Transport System

Peter Diamandis

Dennis Muilenburg,

Falcon Heavy,

Chairman Mao

the NASA training center outside Cleveland, Ohio,

Valeri Polyakov,

Ultimately, your life may depend on someone who gets on your nerves.

Bill Gerstenmaier,

Human Exploration and Operations Directorate,

the Deep Space Gateway,

solar electric propulsion.

—ROBERT ZUBRIN

Giovanni Schiaparelli

Percival Lowell

the Lowell Observatory

the John Carter of Mars series.

Mars’s Olympus Mons

Martin Marietta and Lockheed Martin,

the Mars Simulation Laboratory,

Claudius Gros,

Carson Napier, in Pirates of Venus,

the Northern Lights,

Europa, a moon of Jupiter, and Titan, a moon of Saturn.

—ISAAC ASIMOV

Europa,

Enceladus,

Titan

Ganymede,

Freeman Dyson

the Battle of Hastings

Bayeux Tapestry

Edmond Halley,

the Kuiper Belt,

Uranus

Neptune.

—ALAN TURING

—DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER

carbon nanotubes,

AlphaGo, DeepMind’s computer program,

Robby the Robot in Forbidden Planet.

Dartmouth

Herbert Simon

But where did we pick up this knowledge?