'Human race needs to expand beyond Earth,' says Prof Brian Cox

BBC Studios/ Nick GavenProf Brian Cox is a physicist and musicianProf Brian Cox says he is prepared to boldly go where no British TV presenter has gone before.“I’ve not yet raised the funds, or convinced someone to give me a ticket” to space, he explains.But if Elon Musk, the owner of US aerospace company SpaceX came calling, then “I’d say… brilliant, up we go!”, he adds.Travelling to space is something we could all be doing in the future, according to Prof Cox, the UK’s best-known particle physicist. Speaking ahead of his new BBC Two series about the Solar System, he says he wants the human race to go further.He says advances being made at some commercial space companies mean there is a possibility that we could become a multi-planetary and interstellar civilisation.SpaceXJared Isaacman steps out of the hatch at the start of the first private spacewalkOne person who has beaten Prof Cox into space is billionaire businessman Jared Isaacman and the crew of SpaceX’s…