19 JUN. 2024 · Clyde Tombaugh was born on the 4th of February 1906 in Illinois into a farming family. His parents’ hoped that their little boy who was growing up healthy and happy would make himself useful in the fields. But Clyde’s gaze fell not so much on the land as on the sky, as he had a passion for stargazing. Because we all have our own destiny written for us, beyond our DNA, perhaps somewhere in the stars. Look up is the podcast of the https://www.asi.it/en/communication/podcast/ that tells the characters and exploits of the great space adventure. Script Daniela Amenta. Post-production Paola Pagone. Visual design Paola Gaviraghi. Editorial Coordination Giuseppina Pulcrano and Manuela Proietti, Asi Multimedia Unit.

5 JUN. 2024 · Previous episodes of Look Up have been dedicated to Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Robert Goddard, a Russian and an American who, while miles and miles apart and with no way of meeting up, comparing notes or exchanging ideas, both worked in that field made up of calculations, visions, daring projects and intrepid experiments, with one common goal: space flight. There’s also a third pioneer who worked in this field between the end of the Nineteenth and the start of the Twentieth century, who we ought to remember: Hermann Oberth. Look up is the podcast of the https://www.asi.it/en/communication/podcast/ that tells the characters and exploits of the great space adventure. Script Daniela Amenta. Post-production Paola Pagone. Visual design Paola Gaviraghi. Editorial Coordination Giuseppina Pulcrano and Manuela Proietti, Asi Multimedia Unit.

22 MAY. 2024 · Goddard, born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on the 5th of October 1882, was just an ordinary American boy. But a boy with a dream: to launch a rocket into orbit. His passion grew when his father gave him a telescope and when later, as an adolescent, he read H. G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds". In 1907, as a student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, he began building rockets fuelled by gunpowder.  Look up is the podcast of the https://www.asi.it/en/communication/podcast/ that tells the characters and exploits of the great space adventure. Script Daniela Amenta. Post-production Paola Pagone. Visual design Paola Gaviraghi. Editorial Coordination Giuseppina Pulcrano and Manuela Proietti, Asi Multimedia Unit.

8 MAY. 2024 · A pioneer of rocket science, the first person to come up with the idea of a space elevator, and a populariser influenced by Cosmism, the school of thought popular in Russia in the late 19th and early 20th century, which centred on man as a god able to control natural forces and turn them to his advantage.  Look up is the podcast of the https://www.asi.it/en/communication/podcast/ that tells the characters and exploits of the great space adventure. Script Daniela Amenta. Post-production Paola Pagone. Visual design Paola Gaviraghi. Editorial Coordination Giuseppina Pulcrano and Manuela Proietti, Asi Multimedia Unit.

24 ABR. 2024 · A life of adventure awaited Alexei Leonov from his birth in southwest Siberia on 30 May 1934. A legendary character and audacious world-beater, he was the eleventh Soviet cosmonaut, best known as the first man to carry out a spacewalk on 18 March 1965. Look up is the podcast of the https://www.asi.it/en/communication/podcast/ that tells the characters and exploits of the great space adventure. Script Daniela Amenta. Post-production Paola Pagone. Visual design Paola Gaviraghi. Editorial Coordination Giuseppina Pulcrano and Manuela Proietti, Asi Multimedia Unit.

10 ABR. 2024 · Captain Alan Shepard is ready for his great adventure in space. Last night he slept only three hours, not because he was nervous, but because these were the specific instructions of the doctors. As he steps onto the lift which will take him to the capsule, his doctor states to the journalists: Alan is as cool as a cucumber.  Look up is the podcast of the https://www.asi.it/en/communication/podcast/ that tells the characters and exploits of the great space adventure. Script Daniela Amenta. Post-production Paola Pagone. Visual design Paola Gaviraghi. Editorial Coordination Giuseppina Pulcrano and Manuela Proietti, Asi Multimedia Unit.

27 MAR. 2024 · She used to say: “The more competent you are, the more authoritative you will seem.” And so she studied – hard, she studied day and night to become a physicist despite the scepticism of her mother, who wanted her to become an interpreter.  Look up is the podcast of the https://www.asi.it/en/communication/podcast/ that tells the characters and exploits of the great space adventure. Script Daniela Amenta. Post-production Paola Pagone. Visual design Paola Gaviraghi. Editorial Coordination Giuseppina Pulcrano and Manuela Proietti, Asi Multimedia Unit.

13 MAR. 2024 · Stockholm. December 2002. The Nobel prize in physics is awarded to Riccardo Giacconi "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources”. The world of science clapped; Italy went wild. Look up is the podcast of the https://www.asi.it/en/communication/podcast/ that tells the characters and exploits of the great space adventure. Script Daniela Amenta. Post-production Paola Pagone. Visual design Paola Gaviraghi. Editorial Coordination Giuseppina Pulcrano and Manuela Proietti, Asi Multimedia Unit.

28 FEB. 2024 · A multi-faceted man. You could summarise thus the story of Paolo Nespoli, born in Milan under the sign of Aries on 6 April 1957.  First a serviceman, then an engineer, and finally an astronaut, he is today a refined and cultured scientific populariser and a sensitive, illuminated writer, able to tap into the anxieties of young people, like in his 2022 novel "L'unico giorno giusto per arrendersi". Look up is the podcast of the https://www.asi.it/en/communication/podcast/ that tells the characters and exploits of the great space adventure. Script Daniela Amenta. Post-production Paola Pagone. Visual design Paola Gaviraghi. Editorial Coordination Giuseppina Pulcrano and Manuela Proietti, Asi Multimedia Unit.

14 FEB. 2024 · A rockstar of the skies. Astronaut, test pilot, entrepreneur, leader of and witness to miraculous undertakings. Cheli’s is a life lived to the fullest, including no less than four university degrees. Look up is the podcast of the https://www.asi.it/en/communication/podcast/ that tells the characters and exploits of the great space adventure. Script Daniela Amenta. Post-production Paola Pagone. Visual design Paola Gaviraghi. Editorial Coordination Giuseppina Pulcrano and Manuela Proietti, Asi Multimedia Unit.