Placing the dish on the 85-foot telescope
Photographed here is the backup structure for the NRAO’s first radio telescope, the 85-foot Howard E. Tatel in Green Bank. The 85-foot arrived in kit form from the Blaw-Knox Corporation of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania in 1958. It began observing on February 13, 1959 and became famous for performing the world’s first SETI observations under the direction of Dr. Frank Drake.
Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF
