NASA Spaceward Bound India Program's 2016 team. Pics/Rakesh Rao

Space engineering researcher Siddharth Pandey, 29, says, to understand if life exists on other planets, one has to first know how it does so on Earth itself. It is the search for this knowledge that sparked the NASA Spaceward Bound Program 12 years ago. Today, many international offshoots of the programme are continuing this endeavour across the globe, with the most recent one being in India. Pandey will be talking about all this and more at his session titled, Astrobiology in the Himalayas this Sunday.