1961 Press Photo Workers Finish Radio Telescope Dish, Stanford University

Stanford, California, October 1 - Biggest radio telescope dish - Looking like ants in a saucer, workmen put the finishing touches on America's largest radio telescope "dish" on the Stanford University campus yesterday. Riggers are scheduled next week to lift the 70-ton, 150-foot steel and aluminum antenna onto its mount. The antenna was designed and built by Stanford Research Institute scientists with support from the Air Force. The "dish" will enable scientists to use high-power radar to probe into outer space.

Photo is dated 1961.

Photo measures 10 x 8.25 inches.