Records of the NRAO > Green Bank WV Operations Series > 300 Foot Telescope Unit > 300 Foot Telescope Collapse Subunit

Collection Items

Description: ca. 160 photos - a few before, majority after the collapse. Mostly undated.
Start Date: 1988

Description: Press release, photos and other material on the telescope
Start Date: 1988

Start Date: 1989-04-11

Description: Technical Report no. 7878 AUI. Metallurgical examination by Lucius Pitkin, Inc.
Start Date: 1989-02-27

Description: Includes correspondence, notes
Start Date: 1989-02-20

Description: Viewgraph copies
Start Date: 1989-01

Description: Includes correspondence, notes, brochures, photos.
Start Date: 1988-12

Description: Includes report, correspondence
Start Date: 1988-12-16

Description: Correspondence
Start Date: 1988-11-30

Description: Correspondence, notes
Start Date: 1988-11-28

Description: Includes correspondence, memos, photo
Start Date: 1988-11-26

Description: Includes correspondence, notes, memos
Start Date: 1988-11-21

Description: Includes correspondence, memos, notes, brochures
Start Date: 1988-11-19

Description: Includes correspondence, press releases; journal cuts including Life Magazine Jan.1989; Sky & Tel. March 1989
Start Date: 1988-11-17

Description: Includes correspondence, memos, photos, notes, background material on 300 foot, CD.
Start Date: 1988-11-17

Description: Includes phone messages, notes
Start Date: 1988-11-16

Description: Includes telex memos, email memos
Start Date: 1988-11-16

Description: Includes memos, correspondence, notes, photos, interviews with telescope operators, reports, some history/background of 300 ft
Start Date: 1988-11-16

The 300ft Telescope: My Part in Its Collapse, 2008
Description: Unpublished memoir essay on the collapse of the 300 Foot Telescope, written by Richard Porcas.
Start Date: 2008

Description: Audio interviews with Don Nelson and Ron Maddalena re: the collapse of the 300 Foot Telescope. Interview used in Chapter 6 of "But It Was Fun."

Description: Audio interview with Harold Crist re: the collapse of the 300 Foot Telescope. Interview used in Chapter 6 of "But It Was Fun."

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