• A crane lowers a large radio telescope array on to the ground. The black and white photo sand the style of the truck suggest the photos age.
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    The Howard E. Tatel Radio Telescope, completed in 1959, performed the first detailed mapping of the center of the Milky Way galaxy and was used by astronomer Frank Drake to scan for extraterrestrial signals.

  • A crane lowers a large radio telescope array on to the ground. The black and white photo sand the style of the truck suggest the photos age.

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January 01, 1958

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