Meet Epic Spaceman, this week on Planetary Radio.

I'm Sarah al-Ahmad of the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond.

When difficult times stifled his career, British filmmaker and cinematographer Toby Lockerby didn't

give up. He looked up. His four-time Webby award-winning YouTube channel, Epic Space Man, now reaches

millions, blending art and science to remind us how beautiful the universe really is, and that

anyone can learn to share that beauty too.

We'll talk about how passion can turn adversity into creativity, and why sharing the story

of space matters more than ever.

Then we'll wrap up with Bruce Betz, our chief scientist, and what's up, as we mark the end of the Japanese

Aerospace Exploration Agency's Akatsky Mission to Venus. If you love planetary radio and want to stay

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For many of us who love space, there's a moment when curiosity turns into creation.

That can mean making art and music or volunteering to share your telescope views with others, even voicing a podcast, or in the case of

Toby Lockerbie, starting a YouTube channel. Toby found that moment during the uncertainty of the

COVID lockdown. In 2021, after 10 years as a photographer and filmmaker, he decided to pursue a new

project, sharing space with people around the world.

Toby was already a professional in film, but no one can know everything.

He had zero experience in visual effects, yet he decided to teach himself how to build the universe from scratch one render at a time.

The result was Epic Space Man, a cinematic YouTube

channel that turns physics and astronomy into breathtaking visual stories. Toby even places himself

in the videos as a digital astronaut. You can see his face beneath the helmet, guiding viewers through

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