Stephen Hawking called for a massive investment in establishing colonies on the Moon and Mars in a lecture in honour of NASA's 50th anniversary. He argued that the world should devote about 10 times as much as NASA's current budget or 0.25% of the world's financial resources to space.
On Monday, April 21, Professor Stephen Hawking of the University of Cambridge will be the featured speaker at a lecture that is part of a series honouring NASA's 50th anniversary. The title of Hawking's lecture is "Why we should go into space." The event will be held at the George Washington University's Morton Auditorium at 3 p.m. EDT. Admission is by invitation only.
Stephen Hawking is one of the most famous physicists on the planet. In his post, as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, he counts Isaac Newton amongst his predecessors. And he was born 300 years to the day after the avant-garde astronomer, Galileo Galilei. Twenty years on from his A Brief History of Time Professor Stephen Hawking examines how far our understanding of the Universe has progressed.