In this interview, Jon Phillips, Assistant Oral Historian for AIP, interviews astronomer and historian of science Steven Dick. Dick recounts his early interest in astronomy and branching out into history as an undergraduate and then graduate student at Indiana University. He discusses his work as an astronomer at the United States Naval Observatory and pursuing the history of astronomy in his spare time. as well as his subsequent tenure as NASAs Chief Historian and the workings of the NASA history office. In the remainder of the interview, Dick describes his work on the history and social impact of astrobiology, and the scientific, religious, and cultural implications of the search for extraterrestrial life.