Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.

He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him him sounds like an elephant with a chest infection

Well they call him a dreamer and now they're right all aboard mister I can never sleep when I'm traveling.

Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.

Piando Ferries, there is another way. This is a

This is CBS In The World. I'm John Bachelor. The next 500 years, engineering life to reach new worlds.

I'll volume by Christopher Mason, who joins me now, the author, as well as the lead voice in a study

not just of the next 500 years, but of the past years of men and women in space, in

low-Earth orbit, on the moon, and in between.

This is a very large scientific study that's only going to grow over the next centuries.

It's available at Nature Magazine, The Nature Journal.

It's called Soma for short, S-O-M-A.

I welcome Chris now to help us understand what he's achieved, what he and his colleagues have achieved,

what they've started, which is the answering the question, what

happens to human beings, homo sapiens, as we're now presenting ourselves?

What happens when we're no longer on planet Earth, but in low Earth orbit and it matters how high you are off of the Earth?

In interplanetary travel and on the moon.

Chris, a very good evening to you. Thank you for this. It was a joy to speak to you

three years past about the next 500 years and now we have the next three years. What is

Soma? What is it meant to achieve? What is the mission of soma? Good evening to you.

Good evening and thanks John so much for having me and a pleasure to be here.

So the soma stands for the space, o omix, and medical atlas.

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