National rivalries aside, our current technology, writes the author, will get us to Mars. government, it seems, feels no pressure to keep up with the Chinese. Having accomplished the feat of the Apollo moon landing in 1969, the U.S. That statement applies to China, the single nation with an active national manned space program and leaders eager to mortify the United States, its superpower rival.
Alert readers will notice that the stirring words “we are entering a new golden age of space travel when exploring the universe will once again become an exciting part of the national agenda after decades of neglect” are not the author’s. Enthusiastic scientific speculation on the future of space travel.Īcclaimed science popularizer Kaku ( The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind, 2014, etc.), the co-founder of string field theory, confines his expertise to physics, but the 226 experts listed in the acknowledgements have plenty to offer on a variety of scientific disciplines.
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