Astrobiology: The Story of our Search for Life in the Universe: The Origin of a Science (Astrobiology: The Story of our Search for Life in the Universe #1)

Issue #1 of Astrobiology: The Story of our Search for Life in the Universe traces the roots of Astrobiology from early cave paintings, through speculations of ancient Greek philosophers on the existence of other worlds, to contributions from more modern scientists such as Huygens, Galileo, Oparin, Haldane, Miller, Urey, Franklin, Watson, Crick, and Sagan. It goes on to explain how shortly after NASA was created in 1958, the NASA Exobiology Program, a research program supporting the search for life beyond Earth, came along. It would eventually morph into the Astrobiology Program in the mid-90’s.