[telegram - a UK news source]
Ex-NASA official who sought E.T. dies at 83
Dr. John Billingham, who as a NASA official in the 1970s helped persuade the
federal government to use radio telescopes to scour the universe for evidence
of extraterrestrial intelligence, even as critics mocked the idea, died on Aug.
4 in Grass Valley, Calif. He was 83.
His death was confirmed by his sons, Robert and Graham.
Billingham, a native of Worcester, England, who earned a medical degree at
Oxford and helped design spacesuits for astronauts in the 1960s, never found
the evidence he was looking for. But he did help establish the validity of the
quest.
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rest:
http://www.telegram.com/article/20130810/NEWS/308109725/1052
(nothing yet at NASA's website)
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