About the book: 2020 / The Starmus Science Festival was first held in 2011, and since then it has become a tradition for the participation of leading scientists, celebrities in the field of astronautics and music, who share a passion for popularizing knowledge about the Earth and space . The founder of the festival, Garik Israelyan, created an expert council, which included such remarkable personalities as astrophysicist and rock musician Brian May, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, microwave radiation pioneer Robert Wilson, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, chemist and Nobel laureate Harold Kroto and others. The lectures collected in this book are devoted to space exploration, evolution and issues of the origin of life. Cosmonauts, participants in the American and Soviet space programs, will talk about unknown details of their flights and speak about the future of the Earth and humanity. And scientists will share new research data devoted to the study of life on Earth and the search in the universe for worlds similar to ours that could become a home for humans. Publishing design preserved in PDF A4 format.