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SETI Institute founded

Name: SETI Institute founded
Start: 1984-11-20
Location: Mountain View, CA

When: 20 Nov 1984
Where: Mountain View, CA
Sources: 2 public sources

The SETI Institute's building in Mountain View, California Eugene Zelenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Thomas Pierson and astronomer Jill Tarter founded the SETI Institute, a nonprofit to research life beyond Earth. After Congress ended NASA's SETI program in 1993, the institute carried the radio search on with private funds as Project Phoenix.

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FirsthandSETI Institute Founded by Dr. Jill Tarter and Tom Pierson (opens in a new tab)SETI Institute
PressSearch for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Takes a New Tack (opens in a new tab)The Christian Science Monitor / 1994-02-02

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