On 2 March 1962, the “To Serve Man” episode of the Twilight Zone was broadcast. It was based on Damon Knight’s short story of the same title.

 

 

 

 

On 24 January 1878, Congressman Emilio Q Daddario asks Sir Bernard Lovell (of the Jodrell Bank observatory, England) and Harrison Brown about SETI. Sir Bernard Lovell commented, “I think that now one has to be sympathetic about an idea which only a few years ago would have seemed rather farfetched”.

 

 

 

 

On 5 March 1962, a UFO photograph was allegedly taken by Alex Birch in Mosborough, near Sheffield, England.

 

 

Robert Forward proposed using a lightsail in his article “Pluto - the Gateway to the Stars” in April 1962 issue of the magazine “Missiles and Rockets”. The article was reprinted in “Science Digest” in 1962.