| Event |
Dates |
5th century BC Greek philosopher Anaxagoras’ theory of panspermia
|
5th century BC |
The possibility of extra-terrestrial life debated on by Ancient Greek scholars such as Thales and Aristotle
|
6th and 7th centuries BC |
Talmud states that at least 18 000 other worlds exist
|
|
Bishop of Paris, Etienne Tempier, argues that God could have created more than one world.
|
1277 |
| Miller-Urey experiment |
1953 |
| Frank Drake launches first ever SETI experiment |
1960 |
| Drake Equation |
1961 |
| First successful flyby of Mars- Mariner 4 |
1965 |
| First physical message sent into space- Pioneer Plaque |
1972 |
Arceibo Message sent into space
|
1974 |
| SETI volunteer Jerry Ehman finds Wow Signal |
1977 |
| Launch of Project SERENDIP |
1979 |
| Carl Sagan, Bruce Murray, Louis Friedman found US Planetary Society |
1980 |
| SETI Launch of Project Phoenix |
1995 |
| Launch of SETI@home |
1999 |
| NASA scientists (Carol Stoker and Larry Lemke) report findings of strong evidence of present life on Mars |
2005 |
| NASA denies these claims, Stoker backs off of initial assertions |
2005 |
| FSA launches COROT mission, searching for extrasolar planets |
2006 |
| NASA will launch Keppler Mission, searching for extrasolar planets- |
2008 |
| The ESA will launch the Darwin Mission that will try to find Earth-like planets and analyze their atmospheres |
2020 |
