xxii CONTENTS
| 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 |
