We will "Keep Looking Up"

`Star Gazer' connected us to the cosmos 

The director of the Miami Museum of Science reached for the stars, and took us all along with him for the ride.

BY ELINOR J. BRECHER

EBRECHER@MIAMIHERALD.COM

Jack Horkheimer, Public Television's ``Star Gazer,'' penned his own epitaph long before his death on Friday at age 72.

`` `Keep Looking Up' was my life's admonition;

I can do little else in my present position.''

A flamboyant showman, Horkheimer led the Miami Museum of Science and Space Transit Planetarium for 35 years. He wrote and hosted PBS' Star Hustler/Star Gazer, a weekly TV series on naked-eye astronomy, for 30 years.

``Science is show biz,'' he once told The Miami Herald.

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Comments

[Jeff]

Because of Jack, I look up often. Somehow, he's made a friendly place out of all that space and mystery. With all the events, stars with personalities, and facts that can stop you in your tracks . . . Jack has made what is cold and lonely - warm and full of friends. Thank you my friend. Well done.