Episodi

  • Umberto Guidoni, a traveler beyond the stars

    Umberto Guidoni, a traveler beyond the stars
    Jan 31 2024
    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 scientist who has always taken that extra step and went a very long way. Astronaut, astrophysicist, writer, and excellent popularizer, he has never hesitated to take responsibility for his actions and opinions and even got into politics, when he thought it was necessary.

    Look up is the podcast of the Italian Space Agency 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.
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    13 min
  • Giovanni Picardi, tha radar genius

    Giovanni Picardi, tha radar genius
    Jan 17 2024
    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 keep on working and making discoveries. Giovanni Picardi, professor emeritus at La Sapienza University in Rome, was among those very special scholars.


    Look up is the podcast of the Italian Space Agency 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.
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    12 min
  • Margherita Hack, the lady of the stars

    Margherita Hack, the lady of the stars
    Jan 3 2024
    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 her destiny? Professor Hack laughed at the notion, not subscribing to destiny but believing in the impact of diligence and merit, as well as in the force of dreams.


    Look up is the podcast of the Italian Space Agency 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.
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    12 min
  • Sergey Pavlovič Korolëv, the chief designer

    Sergey Pavlovič Korolëv, the chief designer
    Dec 20 2023

    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 intense life that was marked by sorrows, hardships, and even 10 years of hard labor in Stalin's gulags for crimes never committed.


    Look up is the podcast of the Italian Space Agency 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.
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    15 min
  • Roberto Vittori, the power of balance

    Roberto Vittori, the power of balance
    Nov 22 2023
    "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 will be on in the future." That's what Roberto Vittori, Air Force Brigadier General, European Space Agency astronaut, and Space Affairs attaché at the Italian Embassy in Washington DC., likes to say.


    Look up is the podcast of the Italian Space Agency 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.
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    10 min
  • Luca Parmitano, alias Luke Skywalker

    Luca Parmitano, alias Luke Skywalker
    Nov 8 2023
    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 the first Italian astronaut in command of the International Space Station (ISS) during Expedition 61.

    Look up is the podcast of the Italian Space Agency 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.
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    14 min
  • An astronautics genius: Luigi Broglio

    An astronautics genius: Luigi Broglio
    Oct 25 2023
    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 but the labor market was still strong.

    Look up is the podcast of the Italian Space Agency 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.
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    14 min
  • Franco Malerba, the first Italian national in Space

    Franco Malerba, the first Italian national in Space
    Aug 10 2023
    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 researcher, a naval officer, a computer engineer, an academic and a former EMP, a science attaché, a journalist, a writer, a science popularizer, an event organizer, and even a performer.

    Look up is the podcast of the Italian Space Agency 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.
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    15 min