I. Search for Habitable
Worlds Around other Stars:
Kepler
;
Space Interferometer
Mission (SIM) ; Terrestrial
Planet Finder (TPF)
II. Search for Life in our
Solar System:
Mars: (Current missions) Mars
Global Surveyor ; 2001
Mars Odyssey
(Future missions) 2003
Mars Exploration Rovers ; Mars
Express ; Mars
Missions in 2005 and Beyond ; A
Crewed Mision to Mars
Europa: (Current mission) Galileo
(Future Missions) Europa
Orbiter ; Icepick: The
Europa Ocean Explorer
Terrestrial Astrobiology : NASA
Astrobiology Roadmap ; Astrobiology
Roadmap Workshop (1998)
III. Search for Signals from Extraterrestrial Civilizations:
Current SETI Projects:
Phoenix
; BETA
; META
II ; SERENDIP
; Optical
SETI ( Columbus ; Harvard
; Berkeley
); Project BAMBI
Near Future:
Allen Telescope
Array (Also see: The
big step (Sky & Telescope 2002) ) ; Argus
(at Big Ear Radio Observatory
)