Fasten your seat belts - fly to the Moon in four hours and Mars in two to three weeks

This is the latest news from Space scientists of NASA – steps are afoot to go in for flight to the Moon and Mars. Instead of the duration being in weeks and months, it would shorten considerably to days and weeks. Four hours to the Moon and two to three weeks to the red planet Mars.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 14 May 2015.

NASA is believed to have successfully tested a revolutionary new power source that is compact enough to fit into a suitcase. It can fly at the equivalent of an astonishing 450 million miles an hour. This unique device is an invention called an electromagnetic drive or EmDrive. It is powered by something similar to that found in a microwave oven.
NASA has conducted the first successful tests of an EmDrive in a vacuum, to recreate the emptiness of outer space.
This EmDrive does not need any propellant because it works by converting electric power — from solar panels or a small on-board nuclear reactor — into forward thrust. The development rights of EmDrive have been bought by aircraft giant Boeing.
The UK Government has funded the early development of Mr Roger Shawyer’s ideas to whom should go the credit of this invention. He has gone through years of ridicule ever since he unveiled it nearly a decade ago.
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Stephen Hawking says survival of mankind depends on Space exploration

#StephenHawking #artificialintelligence #londonsciencemuseum #spaceexploration 73-year-old Professor Stephen Hawking is a firm believer in the fact that the future of mankind depends on man’s ability to explore space as reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 20 February 2015. He made these remarks during a tour of London's Science Museum.
He went on to say that landing on the moon gave us new perspectives of life on Earth, and it is necessary to take note of this outlook which must be developed if mankind is to survive. While on the subject, he added that aggression should be wiped out of the human race and instead, there should be empathy to avoid a major nuclear war that could bring to an end civilization as we know it.
In the opinion of Professor Hawking, a major nuclear war could bring about the end of civilization, and possibly the human race. Therefore, space exploration was 'life insurance' for the human race and needed to continue.
By sending humans to the moon, man has changed the future of the human race but exactly how and to what extent can be known only after sometime.
Incidentally, in December 2014, he had issued another warning on artificial intelligence. He felt AI could spell the end of the human race. He was, at the time, speaking at an event in London and had told that the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.