Look up
The characters and exploits of man's great adventure to conquer space.
An Italian Space Agency's podcast edited by Unità Multimedia.
Script and voice Daniela Amenta. Post-production Paola Pagone. Visual design Paola Gaviraghi.
Editorial coordination Giuseppina Pulcrano and Manuela Proietti.
- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 11 minutes
- Episodes
- 29
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2024
Luigi Gussalli, the Italian space pioneer
Incredible as it sounds, this story is set in the early 1900s. Or rather, to be precise, it began in 1885, the birth year of engineer and inventor Luigi Gussalli, a pioneer first in the field of auto…
00:10:17 |
Wed 17 Jul 2024
Edoardo Amaldi: from via Panisperna to eternity
Without Edoardo Amaldi, the whole world of science would be infinitely poorer. Without the passion, foresight, genius, spirit of self-sacrifice, and sense of civic duty of Edoardo Amaldi, today Italy…
00:13:50 |
Wed 03 Jul 2024
Tombaugh, the man who discovered Pluto
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 f…
00:10:57 |
Wed 19 Jun 2024
Oberth, the German rocketry visionary
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 note…
00:11:58 |
Wed 05 Jun 2024
Robert Goddard, the rocket genius
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 …
00:11:12 |
Wed 22 May 2024
Tsiolkovsky, the pioneer of rocket science
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…
00:12:03 |
Wed 08 May 2024
Leonov, the first space walk
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…
00:11:16 |
Wed 24 Apr 2024
Alan Shepard, the man who played golf on the moon
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 h…
00:12:09 |
Wed 10 Apr 2024
Angioletta Coradini, the queen of the planets
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, w…
00:11:32 |
Wed 27 Mar 2024
Riccardo Giacconi, the real professor X
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…
00:13:04 |
Wed 13 Mar 2024
Paolo Nespoli, per aspera ad astra
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…
00:12:32 |
Wed 28 Feb 2024
Maurizio Cheli, a life lived to the fullest
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.
…
…
00:13:53 |
Wed 14 Feb 2024
Umberto Guidoni, a traveler beyond the stars
It's hard to say what would Umberto Guidoni reply if asked about the award he cherishes the most among the many he received. Umberto Guidoni is a man of many talents and a truly generous heart. A sci…
00:13:04 |
Wed 31 Jan 2024
Giovanni Picardi, tha radar genius
There are scientists who make indispensable contributions to research and humankind but who always remain a step behind, shying away from the limelight to stay focused, not to waste precious time, to…
00:11:39 |
Wed 17 Jan 2024
Margherita Hack, the lady of the stars
Margherita Hack's’voice, resonating in the universe with her Tuscan accent that never left her, recalls the parable of a life born in Florence on June 12, 1922, at Via delle Cento Stelle. Was space h…
00:11:34 |
Wed 03 Jan 2024
Sergey Pavlovič Korolëv, the chief designer
If he had not died so young, at only 59, perhaps the space race between the Soviet Union and the US might have gone differently. We’ll never know! Sergey Pavlovič Korolëv lived a short but very inten…
00:14:54 |
Wed 20 Dec 2023
Roberto Vittori, the power of balance
"Space is a matter of balance, people are a matter of balance, and relationships are a matter of balance: balance is the real force that we must train and develop for whatever planet we are on and wi…
00:10:04 |
Wed 22 Nov 2023
Luca Parmitano, alias Luke Skywalker
Today he is an astronaut of the European Space Agency. He was the first Italian national to carry out an extravehicular activity on July 9, 2013, with 6 hours and 7 minutes of spacewalk. He was also …
00:14:23 |
Wed 08 Nov 2023
An astronautics genius: Luigi Broglio
Almost sixty years ago in 1964, the Fiat 600 was Italy's darling, the Milan-Naples highway (the so-called Autostrada del Sole) had just been inaugurated, and the economic boom was beginning to wane b…
00:13:36 |
Wed 25 Oct 2023
Franco Malerba, the first Italian national in Space
Franco Malerba is a man of many talents. His knowledge, passions and interests are quite impressive. Let's try and sketch his profile with a few strokes: an astronaut, of course, but also a researche…
00:14:31 |
Thu 10 Aug 2023
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are the property of Agenzia Spaziale Italiana. This content is not affiliated with or endorsed by eachpod.com.