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Brookings report for NASA weighs effects of finding extraterrestrial life

When: Dec 1960
Where: Washington, D.C.
Sources: 1 public source

The Brookings Institution in Washington, which prepared the 1960 report for NASA Gryffindor, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

A Brookings Institution study done for NASA proposed research on the social effects of space activities, including how the public might react to discovering intelligent life or artifacts on the Moon, Mars or Venus, and whether such news might be presented to or withheld from the public.

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OfficialProposed Studies on the Implications of Peaceful Space Activities for Human Affairs (NASA-CR-55643, D. N. Michael, Brookings Institution) (opens in a new tab)NASA Technical Reports Server / 1960-12

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