• A cramped control room is packed with archaic electronic equipment. The photo is in black and white. The large rectangular equipment with pronounced knobs and dials seem to date from the 1950s or 1960s.
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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 cramped control room is packed with archaic electronic equipment. The photo is in black and white. The large rectangular equipment with pronounced knobs and dials seem to date from the 1950s or 1960s.

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April 01, 1960

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