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

Collection Items

Photographs, ca. 1988

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

Start Date: 1988

300 Foot Telescope Collapse Press Kit, 19 December 1988

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

Start Date: 1988

General Correspondence, 1989-1990

Start Date: 1989-04-11

Report of the Technical Assessment Panel for the 300 foot Radio Telescope at Green Bank, WV, March 1989

Report of the Technical Assessment Panel for the 300 foot Radio Telescope at Green Bank, WV, March 1989

Description: Also known as NLSRT Memo no. 53

Start Date: 1989-03

300 Foot Radio Telescope - Fractured Main Box Girder Plate, 27 February 1989

300 Foot Radio Telescope - Fractured Main Box Girder Plate, 27 February 1989

Description: Technical Report no. 7878 AUI. Metallurgical examination by Lucius Pitkin, Inc.

Start Date: 1989-02-27

NSF Engineering Group Visit to GB/300 Foot, February 1989

Description: Includes correspondence, notes

Start Date: 1989-02-20

Collapse of 300 ft Telescope - AAS Meeting, January 1989

Description: Viewgraph copies

Start Date: 1989-01

Clean Up and Salvage, 1988-1989

Description: Includes correspondence, notes, brochures, photos.

Start Date: 1988-12

Alternative Telescopes for the 300 ft Users - Reactions to 100 m Offer, 16 December 1988

Description: Includes report, correspondence

Start Date: 1988-12-16

National Science Foundation - Miscellaneous, 1988-1994

Description: Correspondence

Start Date: 1988-11-30

Collapse Meeting - Richard Fleming, 1988

Description: Correspondence, notes

Start Date: 1988-11-28

Correspondence - Congressional, 1988-1989

Description: Includes correspondence, memos, photo

Start Date: 1988-11-26

Miscellaneous, 1988-1989

Description: Includes correspondence, notes, memos

Start Date: 1988-11-21

300 Foot Removal, 1988-1989

Description: Includes correspondence, memos, notes, brochures

Start Date: 1988-11-19

300 Foot News, 1988-1989

Description: Includes correspondence, press releases; journal cuts including Life Magazine Jan.1989; Sky & Tel. March 1989

Start Date: 1988-11-17

Internal Investigative Committee, 1988-1989

Description: Includes correspondence, memos, photos, notes, background material on 300 foot, CD.

Start Date: 1988-11-17

Phone Calls; Visitors, 1988-1989

Description: Includes phone messages, notes

Start Date: 1988-11-16

Memos, 1988-1989

Description: Includes telex memos, email memos

Start Date: 1988-11-16

300 ft Collapse - George A. Seielstad Folder, 1988-1989

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

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

Don Nelson and Ron Maddalena Interviews, undated

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."

Harold Crist Interview, undated

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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