A multinational team of, scientists, filmmakers, and journalists arrived in a remote corner of Angola last week to begin an unprecedented, 1,000-mile-long expedition supported by the National Geographic Society.
Already, the expedition has garnered some of the most far-reaching attention you can get. On May 25, Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti took a breathtaking photograph of the Okavango Delta system from the International Space Station and tweeted the team a message, “Wishing you luck.”