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Frank Drake(1930-2022)

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Frank Drake
Legendary NASA robotics engineer and best-selling science fiction author, Gentry Lee, has spent a lifetime seeking an answer to the ultimate cosmic question: Are we alone in the universe? At age 82 he has come to a revelatory conclusion.
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Starman (2025)
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Frank Drake was born on 28 May 1930 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was married to Amahl Shakhashiri and Elizabeth Procter Bell. He died on 2 September 2022 in Aptos, California, USA.
BornMay 28, 1930
DiedSeptember 2, 2022(92)
BornMay 28, 1930
DiedSeptember 2, 2022(92)
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Known for

Douglas Vakoch in Efforts to Search for, Send Messages to Extraterrestrial Life Advance In Digital Age (2019)
CBS 5 Eyewitness News
TV Series
  • Self - Frank Drake, PhD, Astronomer & Astrophysicist
The Farthest (2017)
The Farthest
8.1
  • Self
  • 2017
David Ogden Stiers, Stacy Keach, Neil Ross, Jay O. Sanders, Craig Sechler, J.T. Turner, and David Pogue in Nova (1974)
Nova
8.7
TV Series
  • Self
Horizon (1964)
Horizon
8.5
TV Series
  • Self(as Dr Frank Drake)

Credits

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Thanks

  • Stargazing Live (2011)
    Stargazing Live
    8.0
    TV Series
    • thanks
    • 2012

Self

  • What If?
    • Self - Interviewee
    • Released
    • TV Series
    • 1996
  • Cixin Liu in Rendezvous with the Future (2022)
    Rendezvous with the Future
    7.1
    TV Series
    • Self
    • 2022
  • Douglas Vakoch in Efforts to Search for, Send Messages to Extraterrestrial Life Advance In Digital Age (2019)
    CBS 5 Eyewitness News
    TV Series
    • Self - Frank Drake, PhD, Astronomer & Astrophysicist
    • 2019
  • Douglas Vakoch in Offworld (2018)
    Offworld
    TV Series
    • Self
    • 2019
  • Space's Deepest Secrets (2016)
    Space's Deepest Secrets
    8.0
    TV Series
    • Self - Phd., University of California - Santa Cruz
    • 2017
  • The Farthest (2017)
    The Farthest
    8.1
    • Self
    • 2017
  • The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins (2014)
    The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins
    6.8
    TV Movie
    • Self - astronomer
    • 2014
  • The Croppies (2013)
    The Croppies
    TV Series
    • Self (as Prof. Frank Drake)
    • 2013
  • Closer to Truth (2000)
    Closer to Truth
    8.7
    TV Series
    • Self
    • 2012
  • A Message from Space
    TV Movie
    • Self
    • 2011
  • The Search for Life: The Drake Equation (2010)
    The Search for Life: The Drake Equation
    7.1
    TV Movie
    • Self - SETI Founder (as Dr Frank Drake)
    • 2010
  • Horizon (1964)
    Horizon
    8.5
    TV Series
    • Self (as Dr Frank Drake)
    • 2008
  • The Cosmos: A Beginner's Guide (2007)
    The Cosmos: A Beginner's Guide
    6.1
    TV Series
    • Self
    • 2007
  • History's Mysteries (1998)
    History's Mysteries
    7.9
    TV Series
    • Self
    • 2006
  • UFO Files (2004)
    UFO Files
    6.9
    TV Series
    • Self - President, SETI Institute
    • 2005
  • Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs - Seeing Is Believing (2005)
    Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs - Seeing Is Believing
    7.5
    TV Movie
    • Self - SETI Researcher
    • 2005

Archive Footage

  • Starman (2025)
    Starman
    6.8
    • Self - Radio Astronomer (archive footage)
    • 2025
  • Brian Cox in Brian Cox's Adventures in Space and Time (2021)
    Brian Cox's Adventures in Space and Time
    7.7
    TV Mini Series
    • Self (archive footage)
    • 2021
  • Douglas Vakoch in How to Design an Interstellar Message for Extraterrestrials (2018)
    How to Design an Interstellar Message for Extraterrestrials
    Short
    • Self (archive footage)
    • 2018
  • Ancient Aliens (2009)
    Ancient Aliens
    7.0
    TV Series
    • Self (archive footage)
    • 2010–2017
  • The Universe (2007)
    The Universe
    8.6
    TV Series
    • Self - Radio Astronomer (archive footage, uncredited)
    • 2009

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Official Trailer
Trailer 2:35
Official Trailer
The Farthest - Trailer
Trailer 2:16
The Farthest - Trailer
The Farthest - Trailer
Trailer 2:16
The Farthest - Trailer

Personal details

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  • Alternative names
    • Dr Frank Drake
  • Born
    • May 28, 1930
    • Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • Died
    • September 2, 2022
    • Aptos, California, USA
  • Spouses
      Amahl Shakhashiri1978 - September 2, 2022 (his death, 2 children)
  • Children
      Nadia Drake
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