Eric Burgess

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Eric Burgess

Eric Burgess (1920 – March 2005) was an English freelance consultant, lecturer and journalist, who wrote about the Pioneer program

Pioneer program

The Pioneer program is a series of United States unmanned space missions that was designed for planetary exploration. There were a number of such missions in the program, but the most notable were Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11, which explored the outer planets and left the solar system....
of space missions since the first tests in 1957.

Burgess was a fellow

Fellow

A fellow in the broadest sense is someone who is an equal or a comrade. Historically, the term fellow was also used to describe a man, particularly by those in the upper social classes....
of the Royal Astronomical Society

Royal Astronomical Society

The Royal Astronomical Society is a learned society that began as the Astronomical Society of London in 1820 to support astronomy research . It became the Royal Astronomical Society in 1831 on receiving its Royal Charter from William IV of the United Kingdom....
and British Interplanetary Society

British Interplanetary Society

The British Interplanetary Society founded in 1933 by P E Cleator, is the oldest organisation in the world whose aim is exclusively to support and promote astronautics and space exploration....
, and an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics is the professional society for the field of aerospace engineering. The AIAA was founded in 1963 from the merger of two earlier societies: the American Rocket Society , founded in 1930 as the American Interplanetary Society , and the Institute of Aerospace Sciences , founded...
. He is credited with the original idea that the Pioneer probes should carry a message for extraterrestrial

Extraterrestrial life

Extraterrestrial life is defined as life which does not originate from Earth. It is the subject of astrobiology and its existence remains hypothetical, because there is no credible evidence of extraterrestrial life which has been generally accepted by the mainstream scientific community....
intelligences. Together with Richard Hoagland

Richard C. Hoagland

Richard C. Hoagland is the operator of www.enterprisemission.com. He appears on late-night talk radio to discuss his opinions on alleged US government cover-ups of alien civilizations and other space-related topics....
, he approached Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan

Carl Edward Sagan, Ph.D. was an United States astronomer, Astrochemistry, author, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics and other natural sciences....
about his idea, which eventually resulted in the Pioneer plaque

Pioneer plaque

The Pioneer plaques are a pair of gold anodized aluminum commemorative plaque which were placed on board the 1972 Pioneer 10 and 1973 Pioneer 11 spacecraft, featuring a pictogram, in case either Pioneer 10 or 11 are intercepted by extraterrestrial beings....
.