Episodes

  • Luigi Gussalli, the Italian space pioneer

    Luigi Gussalli, the Italian space pioneer
    Jul 17 2024
    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 automobiles, then from the 1920s onward a true forerunner of Italian astronautics, on par with Oberth in Germany and Goddard in America.

    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 mins
  • Edoardo Amaldi: from via Panisperna to eternity

    Edoardo Amaldi: from via Panisperna to eternity
    Jul 3 2024
    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 wouldn’t have a cutting-edge school of physics of such great international standing and influence

    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 mins
  • Tombaugh, the man who discovered Pluto

    Tombaugh, the man who discovered Pluto
    Jun 19 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 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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    11 mins
  • Oberth, the German rocketry visionary

    Oberth, the German rocketry visionary
    Jun 5 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 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 mins
  • Robert Goddard, the rocket genius

    Robert Goddard, the rocket genius
    May 22 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 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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    11 mins
  • Tsiolkovsky, the pioneer of rocket science

    Tsiolkovsky, the pioneer of rocket science
    May 8 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 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 mins
  • Leonov, the first space walk

    Leonov, the first space walk
    Apr 24 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 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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    11 mins
  • Alan Shepard, the man who played golf on the moon

    Alan Shepard, the man who played golf on the moon
    Apr 10 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 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 mins