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Dr. Bruce Runnegar, director, NASA Astrobiology Institute, will examine conditions for emerging life on Earth. These insights may help scientists plan ways to detect life on other worlds.

Lecture is free, but tickets are required. Tickets can be obtained at the Lockheed Martin IMAX(r) Theater box office and through Tickets.com by calling 800-529-2440, or through the web site at www.tickets.com. There is a small service fee on all Tickets.com orders. Tickets may also be reserved, with no charge, on the Ticket Information and Reservation line at 202-633-2398, or by emailing lectures@nasm.si.edu.

Pre-Lecture Activities:
6:00 p.m. Selected exhibitions open. Experience interactive Discovery Stations and engage a working model of the Mars Exploration Rovers currently exploring the Red Planet.
7:00 p.m. Free Showing of Infinity Express: A 20-Minute Tour of the Universe, Einstein Planetarium

The 2004 Exploring Space Lecture Series, New Strategies for Detecting Life in the Universe, will feature four world-renowned scientists who will take us beyond Mars and the Solar System to examine impending technological advances in astronomical research. What techniques are astronomers using today, and what techniques do they propose for the near future, to seek out planets like Earth? And what might these planets look like, as seen from vast interstellar distances, and how will scientists know that life is possible, or even present, on their surfaces?

Live Webcast: This even will be webcast live!  It will subsequently be offered as archived video two weeks after the live webcast.  See http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1001280/ for more information.