Connecting Space to Village.

During an event hosted by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden and astronauts Terry Virts of NASA and Samantha Cristoforetti or ESA, who recently returned from a mission aboard the International Space Station, discussed the importance of the SERVIR project – a joint venture between the agencies that provides state-of-the-art, satellite-based Earth monitoring, imaging and mapping data, geospatial information, and other products to help improve environmental decision-making abilities for officials in developing countries.