The new International Living With a Star (ILWS) initiative that is supervised by a seven-member steering committee representing the main space agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia, and the United States, currently involves 24 space organizations worldwide. The mission of the fledgling program is to stimulate, strengthen, and coordinate space research in order to understand the governing processes of the connected Sun-Earth system as an integrated entity. Over the next decade, ILWS will assemble the largest fleet of spacecraft ever focused on a single scientific objective.