Enjoy: "Audacity to Dream" - an inspirational video presentation

Astronaut Ron Garan debuted this beautiful and inspirational video at the TEDxISU conference, hosted by the 25th International Space University Space Studies Program last week.

Enjoy.

But Garran's efforts don't start and end with a video clip, as some notes about his accompanying speech reveal:

As nations, continents and oceans rolled by below, NASA astronaut Ron Garan saw not a succession of political and ethnic boundaries but a planet of shared resources and challenges. 

He saw opportunities to achieve sustainability and reduce suffering through improved collaboration, just as 15 nations came together to build the International Space Station, his orbital home for nearly six months last year. 

"We are all interconnected, and the only way we’re going to solve the problems that we all face is together. We don’t have to be in orbit to have an orbital perspective."

Garran is spearheading an initiative called Fragile Oasis. Together with a number of other astronauts from multiple countries, Fragile oasis hopes to sponsor a range of projects around the world to help with problems facing humanity. In Garran's own words:

INSPIRE. RECOGNIZE. HELP.It is very difficult to look at our beautiful Earth from space without being moved in some way. One of the main goals of Fragile Oasis is to share this orbital perspective and inspire people to go out and make a difference; to go out and somehow make life better for those with whom they share this fragile oasis.

The Fragile Oasis community was established to unite in the common goal of sharing our humanity and improving our world. Let us inspire, recognize, and help each other in our collective quest to make life better on our planet.

Ron Garan, AstronautNASA Open Government InitiativeISS Expedition 27/28STS-124NEEMO 9