Astronaut Ron Garan spent months orbiting Earth aboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 27, and the experience reshaped how he thinks about the planet’s most pressing problems.

Astronauts leave everything back home to take up space missions, remain in space stations, conduct research, and gaze at the blue gem we live on. But for one astronaut, days aboard the International ...

For astronaut Ron Garan, living on the International Space Station was a powerful, transformative experience--one that he believes holds the key to solving our problems here on Earth. On space walks ...

Astronaut Ron Garan sleeps in his sleeping bag on the International Space Station in 2008. (NASA) In March, two NASA astronauts finally returned to Earth after an eight-day mission devolved into a 286 ...