The Largest Fully-Steerable Single-Dish Telescope in the World: The GBT
Groundbreaking for the GBT on May 1, 1991 (Left to right: Senator Robert C. Byrd, National Science Foundation Director Walter E. Massey, Associated Universities, Inc. President Robert E. Hughes). Image from the NRAO.
GBT Dedication Poster. Photograph by Mike Bailey; poster via NRAO/AUI.
At 485 feet, the GBT stands almost as tall as the Washington Monument (555 feet) and taller than the Statue of Liberty (305 feet).
View of the arm of the GBT from the back. Photograph by Olivia Harper Wilkins.