SETI and NASA: From the Drake Era to Technosignatures
To the point
SETI is the search for intelligent life by listening for non-random electromagnetic signals, a historical arc from Frank Drake and the Cocconi–Morrison idea through NASA’s fluctuating involvement and a short-lived formal program in 1992, to ongoing private and grassroots efforts, with NASA still pursuing astrobiology and technosignatures and scholars like Douglas A. Vakoch, Philip Morrison, John Billingham, John Wolfe, and David C. Black contributing related works.