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Start Date:2000-08-23 Location:Socorro, NM People:Vanden Bout, Paul Sargent, Anneila Martin, Paul Giacconi, Riccardo Domenici, Pete V. Colwell, Rita	Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLA Unit Subunit:VLA Anniversaries Subunit Type:Still Image Subject:Events--Anniversaries Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA) Tags:women	Description:At the VLA's 20th anniversary celebration on 23 August 2000, when NRAO Director Paul Vanden Bout presented commemorative golden spikes to (left to right) AUI Board member Anneila Sargent, AUI Board Chair Paul Martin, AUI President Riccardo Giacconi, NM Senator Pete Domenici, and NSF Director Rita Colwell. [show more]

Start Date:1980-10-10 Location:VLA Site, NM People:Domenici, Pete V.	Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:New Mexico Operations Series Unit:Very Large Array (VLA) Unit Subunit:VLA Monthly Reports Subunit Type:Still Image Subject:Instruments--Very Large Array (VLA) Facilities--VLA--Array Site	Description:VLA Dedication, 10 October 1980: U.S. Senator Pete Domenici at the Antenna Assembly Building

Start Date:1993-08-20 Location:Socorro, NM People:Skeen, Joe Vanden Bout, Paul Brown, Robert L. Domenici, Pete V.	Creator:Records of the NRAO Series:Photographs Series Unit:VLBA Unit Type:Still Image Subject:Events--Dedications Instruments--Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)	Description:The VLBA was dedicated on 20 August 1993. In this photo, U.S. Representative Joe Skeen (left), NRAO Director Paul Vanden Bout (right), and NRAO Associate Director Bob Brown (background) watch as Senator Pete Domenici scans the bar code below the word "Start" to initiate observations of W3OH. As the antennas began to point, lights on the displayed map lit up for each station, sequencing from east to west. There also was a monitor that showed RA/Dec and Az/El for each antenna, and those numbers started changing as the antennas slewed toward their target. Bob Greschke, VLBA chief operator at the time, wrote the software for the bar-code trick that triggered the map-light sequence and then put a message on his operator's screen so he could manually start the actual pointing sequence. [show more]