On 20 July 1962, Air Force Regulation 202-2 (“AFR 202-2”) was issued.

 

 

 

 

During 1963, Carl Sagan's paper “Direct Contact Among Galactic Civilizations by Relativistic Interstellar Spaceflight” was published.

 

 

 

 

During November 1962, IBM scientists C D Jackson and R E Hohmannpresent a paper entitled “An Historic Report on Life in Space: Tesla, Marconi, Todd” to the Americian Rocket Society meeting on 13-18 November 1962 which considers whether radio signals reported by Nikola Tesla, Guglielmo Marconi and David Todd between 1899 and 1924 “are the result of random noise, electrical leaks, or the effects of various diathermy machines, or whether the signals are authentic”.

 

 

 

During January 1963, Fred Saberhagen's “Without a Thought” (also published as “Fortress Ship”) was published. This was the first of the long-running “Berserker” stories. The first Berserker novel (“Berserker”) was published in 1967.0000