Endless preparations herald big event

By Helen Sim
Updated June 24 2019 - 1:56pm, first published June 21 2019 - 7:00am

Four men stood on top of the Parkes telescope's tower, hand-cranking the gears that turned the big dish while a fifth man timed them with a stopwatch.

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