Stories From The YOUniverse

Hudson Lindich dressed up as Captain James A. Lovell, Jr., for a school report and wrote him a letter saying he was probably Capt. Lovell's biggest fan. Later that year, Hudson put on his very first tuxedo and met his hero in person at the Adler Planetarium.

Oscar Chico followed a friend to the Adler when he was a sophomore at World Language High School in Little Village. Before he went off to college, he told us about his work with YOLO, an Adler-teen-led initiative to study light pollution in Chicago and educate the neighborhood about the night sky.

When Spencer Gore was 15, he met an Adler astronomer on a school field trip. Now he's the CEO of a company that could clean up our planet and change the way we fly. Read more about Spencer and his experience as a teen intern at the Adler on our blog: https://bit.ly/3kIU50X

Michelle Nichols has been helping people see what's in our sky at the Adler for 25 years. About six years ago, she started taking telescopes to libraries, schools, and public spaces around Chicago to reach people in their own neighborhoods.

When Bob Gorz saw NASA astronauts take their first steps on the Moon in 1969, he wished he could be there with them. But since NASA wasn't sending kids to space, he did the next best thing: came to the Adler, built a telescope, and pointed it at the Moon.

Raised on Chicago's South Side, Frederick J. Brown was a visual artist who found inspiration for his work in the stars. Our curator, Pedro Raposo, joins us to share Frederick's story.

Ashley was the subject of the very first Chicago's Black Women in STEAM on The Adler 'Scope blog. She wanted to be the Moon when she grew up. Now she's an astrochemist, and the story of how she joined the Adler community is a great one. Read Ashley's Chicago's Black Women in STEAM article here: http://bit.ly/37esxZn

As the Adler Planetarium celebrates its 90th anniversary, we're getting to know some of the people who have made our community so special. In this episode, find out how a girl from Alaska ended up running a space museum in Chicago. Then, read about the Adler's first female director, Maude Bennot, on The Adler 'Scope: http://bit.ly/2V4uK4l