In the 1950s, the federal government snatched up farmland to build the Green Bank Observatory. It’s now home to the Robert C.
The location is home to the Green Bank Telescope, operated by the Green Bank Observatory since 2016. The telescope is the world's largest steerable radio telescope. Along with researchers flocking ...
In 1960, radio astronomer Frank D. Drake, then at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Green Bank, West Virginia, carried out humanity's first modern attempt to detect interstellar radio ...