One of fourty semi finalists in the "Journalist in Space Program" (cancelled following the Challenger tragedy); candidate from California; in 1986 working for KPIX-TV. Richard Hart created and hosted The Discovery Channel television show The Next Step. He later hosted several programs for CNET TV including C|net Central (CNET's first project, which aired on the Scifi Channel), and CNET News.com, which aired weekly on CNBC. Currently, he is an instructor in the Multimedia Communications department at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. He currently reports on emerging technologies for San Francisco's ABC7 among other TV stations. Richard Hart is the only person to have been the recipient of both an Emmy Award (for comedy) and a DuPont-Columbia Journalism Award (investigative reporting). Richard Hart has a Physics Degree.