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Space Topics: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: A Short History

by Amir Alexander

The history of SETI, from earliest beginnings to this day, in 14 short chapters. Read about the scientific paper that launched the modern search for extraterrestrial intelligence, and about Project Ozma - the first radio search. Learn about support from NASA and opposition from Congress, the long years of waiting, and the tantalizing "Wow!" signal. Follow the visionaries and the skeptics, the dreamers and the realists, as they search for the holy grail that would change human history - contact with an alien civilization!

Chapter 1:  A Signal from the Stars

Chapter 2:  SETI's founding Moment

Chapter 3:  A Blueprint for SETI

Chapter 4: The Origins of Project Ozma

Chapter 5:  Project Ozma - The Search

Chapter 6:  The Dolphins Meet at Green Bank

Chapter 7:  The Birth of the Drake Equation

Chapter 8:  The New Searches

Chapter 9:  Ozpa - A Skeptic's Search

Chapter 10:  Wow!

Chapter 11:  NASA Steps In

Chapter 12:  SETI Goes to Washington

Chapter 13:  SETI after NASA

Chapter 14:  SETI Today