Looking Up

He's a mission manager for Space X, winner of Canada's Greatest Know It All TV competition, co-hosts a podcast, and is the author of a children's book and three Epic Space Adventures books. Andrew Rader is an accomplished overachiever and he joins Dean Regas and Anna Hehman to talk about his latest book, Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars .

If you think our exploration of Mars ended with NASA's Curiosity, think again! A new and improved rover is heading to the red planet next year as Dean Regas and Anna Hehman learn from their guest, Ken Williford , deputy project scientist for the Mars 2020 project.

The mysteries of the cosmos have led to wide array of beliefs, stories, legends and more, many of which are completely fabricated with no basis in science or reality. Author Bob King has released a new book to try address these misconceptions and he joins our Dean Regas and Anna Hehman to talk about Urban Legends from Space: The Biggest Myths About Space Demystified .

As the successful run of the PBS series Star Gazers comes to an end, it seemed only right to welcome in Dean's co-host of that show, James Albury, for some conversation and reminiscences. James is the director of Santa Fe College's Kika Silva Pla Planetarium .

Dean and Anna spend time with Randall Munroe , author of How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems and creator of xkcd.com .

Sharing some truly fascinating stories from his days as a civilian test subject for NASA, Dean Regas and Anna Hehman welcome entrepreneur Kevin Bruns into the studio.

Summer Ash is a true renaissance woman: former rocket scientist, STEAM educator, STARtorialist blogger, and freelance science communicator.

The music you hear at the start of and throughout each episode of Looking Up is from a band called WHY? and one of its founders, Josiah Wolfe , is also an amateur astronomer who has created several space-themed art and sound installations.

We wrap up our celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing with one man whose perspective is uniquely different than most – Mark Armstrong , son of NASA legend Neal Armstrong. He talks about those July days in 1969 and his cameo in the 2018 film about his dad, First Man , in this conversation with hosts Dean Regas and Anna Hehman.

**AUDIO NOTE: We weren't in our home studio for this episode so we apologize for the audio issue during the first 90 seconds or so.** Mike Massimino could be considered a Renaissance man or a pure over-achiever. He's a retired NASA astronaut who made four space walks during two shuttle missions to the Hubble Telescope. He's a New York Times bestselling author of Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe . He's a professor at Columbia University. He hosts