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.

A NASA astronaut had a life-changing revelation after spending 178 days on the International Space Station. Ron Garan, who launched on April 4, 2011 and returned home on September 16, 2011, completed ...

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 ...