Read Jesse’s live blog the rest of the way this afternoon…

2:43 pm | Innovation consultant Steve Shapiro gives a provocative talk on how expertise does not lead to solutions. “Innovation is about connecting the dots. And as Steve Jobs says, ‘Creativity is having enough dots to connect.’ Dots being ideas and experiences. Creative people are people who have had a lot of experience or have thought a lot about their experiences.” It doesn’t take rocket scientist, he asserts, to come up with the creative solutions.

2:30 pm | A video of Dan Pink’s talk on the surprising science of motivation:

Earthrise over the moon, taken by Apollo 8 crewmember Bill Anders on December 24, 1968.

2:13 pm | Tyler Cole reads a narration of a film from space by astronaut Leland Melvin, who is actually currently in space. I was very moved and wasn’t typing as he spoke, so I have to paraphrase Cole slightly: “In space, there is no color; we are all one human race. Leland Melvin, when he looks down to planet Earth from space, hopes that we become one human family. Because it’s too small of a world for us to war over.”

2:06 pm | Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides: “I think that is the most precious resource in outer space: The chance to design a future for our species that inspires us.” Whitesides is the president of the Space Generation Foundation and the co-creator of Yuri’s Night, a party for space celebrated in over 180 countries.

1:59 pm | An amazing lecture from talk radio host John St. Augustine, who just showed the clip of man’s first walk on the moon. (Watch just below.)

“My life had changed in that moment. All our lives. We had done something as the human race that we had never thought we could do before…We create moments and then moments in turn create us.”

“The bottom line is this: we have about 2,365,000,000 seconds to play on this little blue ball we call Earth.”

Read the “Morning Sessions at TEDxNASA.”