Project Ozma
1960 AD investigated
In April 1959, Drake obtained approval from the director Otto Struve of NRAO to begin Project Ozma, a search for extraterrestrial radio communications.
Initially, they agreed to keep the project secret, fearing public ridicule. However, Drake decided to publicize his project after Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison published a paper in Nature in September 1959, entitled "Searching for Interstellar Communications".
Drake began his Project Ozma observations in 1960, using the NRAO 26-meter radio telescope, by searching for possible signals from the star systems Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani.
No extraterrestrial signals were detected and the project was terminated in July 1960.
After learning about Project Ozma, Carl Sagan (then a graduate student) contacted Drake, initiating a lifelong collaboration between them.
Lattitude: 38.4195° N
Longitude: 79.8318° W
Region: North America
Modern Day United States
Subjects Who or What investigated?
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National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) A federally funded resea... -
Frank Drake American astrophysicist ...
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