The Starmus Science Festival was first held in 2011, and since then it has become a tradition for leading scientists, celebrities in the field of astronautics and music, who are united by a passion for popularizing knowledge about the Earth and space. The founder of the festival Garik Israelyan has created an expert council , , which included such remarkable personalities ,..... [ As an astrophysicist and rock musician Brian May , evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins , The discoverer of microwave radiation Robert Wilson , theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov , chemist and Nobel Prize winner Harold Kroto and others. Lectures collected in this book are devoted to space exploration, evolution and questions of the origin of life. Astronauts, participants of the American and Soviet space programs, will talk about the unknown details of their flights and will 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 for worlds similar to ours in the universe, which can become a home for humans. PDF A4 saved publishing design.