First space crew could launch honeymoons on the moon

On Wednesday, City College of New York professor Michio Kaku, a literary author and theoretical physicist, predicted that the first space crew could potentially launch honeymoons on the actual moon.

Kaku compares space travel to the evolution of railroads and airlines.

In the first stage, airplanes and railroads were used to ship freight and cargo, he told host Stuart Varney.

Second stage, wealthy individuals made luxury liner. Third stage, mom and dad can now go on an airplane or a railroad. We re now entering stage two of the space program, continued he. If your mother and dad would go into space, stage three would be going in to outer space. My descendants can honeymoon on the moon. Is it possible to survive for a while? Kaku provided the insight on the same day SpaceX will help make history when it carries the first crew built all-civilian with the Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon Resilience spacecraft dubbed Inspiration 4.

Inspiration 4 is to lift off from Launch Complex 39 A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch window will open on Wednesday, 8: 02 P.M. EDT and a backup window has been set up for 8: 05 P.M. EDT in September 16th.

According to a tweet on Wednesday, conditions appeared favorable for Wednesday's expected launch.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who is also the CEO of Tesla, has been active on social media promoting the flight which follows rivals Virgin Galactic's Sir. Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos are brought to Blue Origin by Richard Branson.

The Inspiration 4 crew will board SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule, the mission of which will last approximately three days and target an altitude of about 360 miles - the closest to any human since the Hubble Space Telescope repair missions. The crew will orbit Earth every 90 minutes along a custom flight path that will be carefully controlled by the aerospace company's mission control system. Upon completion of the mission, Dragon will reenter Earth's atmosphere for a splashdown off the coast of Florida.

Kaku asked Varney what is coming next in space travel and what events he does think will happen.

The first astronauts will likely travel back to the moon within two to three years after a 50-year gap replied, adding that as prices drop, perhaps tourists will also get the opportunity to reach the surface of the moon.

Kaku pointedly remarked that Musk has broader visions in Musk. He actually wants to go on Mars, Kaku continued. I think it is still premature to go on Mars but the very fact that we re thinking about that, means that the game has changed. He went on to explain that the U.S. is no longer focused on beating the Russians, but that now there is a new vision for exploration of the universe. Before appearing on Cavuto: Coast to Coast later Wednesday, former NASA astronaut and international space station commander Dr. Leroy Chiao noted that the all-civilian journey is certainly a first and will be fully automated. He explained that most of their five-month training involved how they can take care of themselves in space and react to all the routine procedures on board as well as taken over to unforeseen emergencies.