Government1978

Sen. Proxmire gives NASA's SETI proposal a Golden Fleece award

When: Feb 1978
Where: Washington, D.C.
Sources: 2 public sources

Sen. William Proxmire, who gave NASA's SETI proposal his Golden Fleece award United States Senate Historical Office, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Sen. William Proxmire gave NASA's proposed radio search for extraterrestrial signals his Golden Fleece award for wasteful spending. The funding was then removed from NASA's fiscal 1979 budget; a House subcommittee held the first congressional SETI hearings that September.

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Press'We Have Looked in the Haystack Very Little': The 1978 SETI Reckoning (opens in a new tab)CAFE / 2024-02-01
OtherEditorial: The Stars on Radio (Cosmic Search, Vol. 1, No. 3) (opens in a new tab)Cosmic Search magazine (North American AstroPhysical Observatory) / 1979

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