The Searchers: NASA Scientists Who Might Find Alien Life in Our Lifetime
This is part 5 of my series on Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service by Michael Lewis.
Here’s something wild: we are probably going to find evidence of life on another planet within the next 25 years. Not “maybe someday.” Within our lifetimes. And the people doing that work are government scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, working in boring beige buildings near Pasadena, California, spending your tax dollars to answer one of the oldest questions in human history.