Watch astronaut Christina Koch and Google’s James Manyika discuss space, technology, and discovery.

NASA astronaut, engineer and scientist Christina Koch appears in a new episode of Google's Dialogues on Technology and Society series, in conversation with James Manyika, Google's Senior Vice President of Research, Labs, Technology & Society. The episode is available to watch in full.

Koch discusses a career that includes 328 days aboard the International Space Station and conducting the first all-female spacewalk, which the source describes as historic. She is also set to journey around the Moon on NASA's Artemis II mission.

In the conversation she describes seeing Earth from 250,000 miles away as an electric blue "lifeboat." She and Manyika also cover the partnership between astronauts, robotics and artificial intelligence, and Koch raises the question of whether humans are alone in the universe.

Asked for guidance for future explorers, Koch advises doing what scares you and supporting the people around you.

Why it matters: The episode is a public discussion rather than a technical or product announcement, aimed at audiences interested in space exploration and the intersection of human spaceflight with robotics and AI.