NASA's Search for Alien Life - Jon Jenkins

Barring the sudden appearance of E.T. in a sleepy suburb, the confirmation of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe will be left to the astronomers whose satellites constantly monitor the heavens. The Kepler observatory studies the skies in search of planets who could theoretically support life as we understand it. Analysis Lead for NASA's Kepler mission Jon Jenkins tells Boyd that this process is merely the first step of finding intelligent life in the universe, but thinks that we could possibly find intelligent life in a generation or two.