Looking Up

In this episode of Looking Up , hosts Dean Regas and Anna Hehman discuss space travel and Dean reveals his favorite astronaut. Then they are joined in studio by Captain Scott Kelly , veteran astronaut and the man who spent a full year living on the International Space Station.

In this episode of Looking Up , hosts Dean Regas and Anna Hehman discuss pop culture and space, from the first science fiction book written in 2 A.D. to movies that get it right, or close to right, like The Martian , to others who seemed content to ignore all scientific logic, like Armageddon .

In this episode of Looking Up , hosts Dean Regas and Anna Hehman discuss pop culture and space, from the first science fiction book written in 2 A.D. to movies that get it right, or close to right, like The Martian , to others who seemed content to ignore all scientific logic, like Armageddon . Their special guest is Lauren Worley who, for 5 years, served as NASA's press secretary and senior advisor.

In this episode of Looking Up , hosts Dean Regas and Anna Hehman dip their toe into doomsday prophecies and space hoaxes with guest Phil Plait , better known as The Bad Astronomer .

In this episode of Looking Up , hosts Dean Regas and Anna Hehman revisit August's total solar eclipse, including finding out where Dean wound up viewing it and the crowd that descended on Anna at the Cincinnati Observatory.

In this episode of Looking Up , hosts Dean Regas and Anna Hehman say good-bye to the successful Cassini spacecraft as it prepares to crash into the surface of Saturn. The mission's Deputy Project Scientist Scott Edgington explains why Cassini is ending this way and some of what has been learned since taking off in 1997. They also answer another Kid Question.

In this episode of Looking Up , hosts Dean Regas and Anna Hehman discuss Pluto with Alice Bowman , the Mission Operations Manager for the New Horizons mission from Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory , then Anna has a question for Dean from the Cincinnati Observatory's Crank File .

In this episode of Looking Up , final preparations for the upcoming total solar eclipse are discussed when hosts Dean Regas and Anna Hehman welcome James Albury , the director of Santa Fe College's Kika Silva Pla Planetarium and Dean's co-host on the PBS series Star Gazers . Plus they'll answer another kid question.

The upcoming total solar eclipse has astronomers and non-astronomers alike excited as the path of totality will bisect the US from Oregon to South Carolina.

In this first episode of Looking Up : hosts Dean Regas and Anna Hehman welcome listeners to the podcast, discuss exoplanets, have a conversation with astronomer Kevin Wagner who recently discovered an exoplanet, and answer a kid question.