A Tribute
to the men and women of
Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station, Canberra, Australia

and wider Australian involvement
in manned and unmanned space exploration


Updates.

Featured May 2013
DSS-43 Tidbinbilla 40th anniversary celebrations, 13th April 2013.

Previous featured photos.

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Also see some related (and some unrelated!) video at vimeo.com/honeysuckle.

Honeysuckle in 1971

Neil Armstrong on the footpad – as seen at Honeysuckle Creek

A beautiful setting

Website by Colin Mackellar – photo taken 09 October 1971.
40th anniversary of Apollo 11
Honeysuckle DVDs

Apollo 11 40th

The Apollo 11 40th anniversary celebrations in July 2009.

The Honeysuckle Creek DVDs

Including Ed von Renouard’s Apollo 11 Super 8 movie – and the full Restored Apollo 11 EVA.

Prime Minister Gorton’s statement
 Prime Minister Gorton’s statement

Australian Prime Minister John Gorton HSK on Monday 21 July 1969. About 3 hours after the Apollo 11 landing, and 4 hours before the EVA. Silent film (14MB MPEG4 file).

The Prime Minister after his tour inside Honeysuckle’s Operations building. Unedited news film runs for 5'14". A 21MB MPEG4 file.
Both clips courtesy of the ABC. See more of the Prime Minister’s visit here.

The Honeysuckle antenna today

Honeysuckle featured photoThe old Honeysuckle antenna was used for the last time in January 2010, however the plan is for the antenna itself to be preserved. It will remain “retired in place” at Tidbinbilla as a fitting monument to its history and to the men and women who were a part of that history.

DSS46 photos.

And here’s a tribute page of photos on the occasion of the shutdown.

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