During 1960, the journal Nature published an article by Ronald Bracewell which discusses the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligences using interstellar probes

 

 

 

 

The Movie (1960) “Village of the Damned” was based on a novel, “The Midwich Cuckoos”, by John Wyndham.

 

 

 

During 1960, engineer Robert W Bussard proposes the interstellar ramjet.

 

 

 

During 1960, Edward Purcell of Harvard gave a lecture at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in which he concluded that “all this stuff about travelling round the Universe in space suits, except for local exploration …, belongs back where it came from, on the cereal box”.