If you require another access service to fully participate or have any questions about accessibility, please contact To ensure the best experience, please try to contact us at your soonest convenience. This program will be presented in-person in the Planetarium at the National Air and Space Museum in DC and will be streamed live on YouTube.ĪSL Interpretation will be provided and live captioning on YouTube. Join Julie Robinson, NASA’s deputy director for earth science, as we explore what living in space teaches us about life on Earth. Spaceflight gives us the opportunity to understand climate change and mitigate its effects to improve the resilience of communities on our home planet. At the same time, we have collected extraordinary data about the Earth system passing below us.

In several decades of continuous presence on the International Space Station, we have learned surprising things about the engineering of systems that support human life. When humans explore space, we have to reproduce all the same systems that Earth provides to sustain life-water, air, surface, and biota - in order to survive in the unforgiving environment of space.

Earth view from space station