When astronauts look back at Earth from space, they often describe an experience so profound that it permanently alters how they perceive life. Known as the "overview effect," this shift in ...
This presentation was recorded on November 7, 2013 in the "Moving Beyond Earth" exhibition at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. Human spaceflight has changed our world, but can a ...
NASA astronaut Ron Garan had a huge revelation while orbiting Earth in the International Space Station, and realised just how ...
No one can say with scientific confidence why we exist or what happens when we die. In fact, scientists have a tenuous grasp on what it even means to be conscious. But our purely human urge to ask the ...
After 25 years in orbit, the International Space Station has become more than a lab, shaping culture, art and perspective ...