CONTENTS xxiii
| 8 | VLBI and the Very Long Baseline Array | 391 |
| 8.1 Independent-Oscillator-Tape-Recording Interferometry | 392 | |
| 8.2 Penetrating the Iron Curtain | 398 | |
| 8.3 Faster than Light | 402 | |
| 8.4 Advanced VLBI Systems | 404 | |
| 8.5 VLBI Networks | 408 | |
| 8.6 Planning the VLBA | 412 | |
| 8.7 Funding the VLBA | 415 | |
| 8.8 Building the VLBA | 425 | |
| 8.9 Orbiting VLBI (OVLBI) | 437 | |
| 8.10 Reflections | 442 | |
| Bibliography | 454 | |
| 9 | The Largest Feasible Steerable Telescope | 461 |
| 9.1 Early Discussions | 461 | |
| 9.2 International Challenges | 464 | |
| 9.3 The Sugar Grove Fiasco | 469 | |
| 9.4 The Largest Feasible Steerable Telescope Project | 474 | |
| 9.5 Challenges from California and Cambridge | 481 | |
| 9.6 A National Disaster Leads to a New Radio Telescope | 483 | |
| 9.7 Building the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) | 505 | |
| Bibliography | 530 | |
| 10 | Exploring the Millimeter Sky | 533 |
| 10.1 First Attempts | 534 | |
| 10.2 The NRAO 36 Foot Millimeter Wave Telescope | 535 | |
| 10.3 Replacing the 36 Foot Telescope | 546 | |
| 10.4 US Industrial and University Millimeter Wave Astronomy Programs | 552 | |
| 10.5 International Challenges | 558 | |
| 10.6 The NRAO Millimeter Array (MMA) | 561 | |
| 10.7 The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) | 568 | |
| Bibliography | 579 | |
| 11 | NRAO and Radio Astronomy in the Twenty-First Century | 583 |
| 11.1 New Discoveries and New Problems | 583 | |
| 11.2 Radio Astronomy and Optical Astronomy | 586 | |
| 11.3 NRAO and the US Radio Astronomy Community | 588 | |
| 11.4 Conflict and Collaboration | 589 | |
| 11.5 The National Radio Quiet Zone and Radio Frequency Spectrum Management | 591 | |
| 11.6 The Transition to “Big Science” | 593 |
