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4 | Growing Pains | 157 |
4.1 Finding a Director | 158 | |
4.2 Getting Started | 162 | |
4.3 The 85 Foot Tatel Radio Telescope (aka 85-1) | 166 | |
4.4 The 140 Foot Saga | 170 | |
4.5 The 300 Foot Transit Radio Telescope | 196 | |
4.6 Jumping Ship | 200 | |
4.7 Exodus from Green Bank | 211 | |
Bibliography | 225 | |
5 | Is Anyone Out There? | 229 |
5.1 Project Ozma | 229 | |
5.2 Cocconi and Morrison Paper | 234 | |
5.3 Reactions to Searching for Extraterrestrials | 235 | |
5.4 Development of the SETI Community | 238 | |
5.5 SETI After Project Ozma | 242 | |
5.6 SETI in the USSR | 252 | |
5.7 Continuing SETI Programs | 254 | |
Bibliography | 260 | |
6 | The Bar Is Open | 263 |
6.1 NRAO Reaches Maturity | 263 | |
6.2 First Scientific Studies | 273 | |
6.3 The Central Development Laboratory | 280 | |
6.4 Open Skies | 284 | |
6.5 Community Interactions | 287 | |
6.6 Growing Competition | 289 | |
6.7 Grote Reber Challenges NRAO | 304 | |
6.8 Changing Leadership | 306 | |
Bibliography | 313 | |
7 | The Very Large Array | 319 |
7.1 Background | 319 | |
7.2 Origins of the Very Large Array and the Owens Valley Array | 325 | |
7.3 The Green Bank Interferometer (GBI) | 337 | |
7.4 The NRAO-OVRO Wars | 341 | |
7.5 Choosing the VLA Site | 352 | |
7.6 Building the VLA | 355 | |
7.7 Transition to Operations | 369 | |
7.8 The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA) | 375 | |
Bibliography | 386 |