A
Tribute to
Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station
Canberra,
Australia
and
all who worked there
Also see some related (and some unrelated!) video at vimeo/honeysuckle. |
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Click the image for photos and video from the 40th anniversary gathering, |
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Australian Prime Minister John Gorton inside the Honeysuckle Creek Operations building on Monday 21 July 1969. It is about 3 hours after the Apollo 11 landing, and 4 hours before the First Step. Silent film (14MB MPEG4 file). |
John Gorton reads a statement immediately after his tour inside the Honeysuckle Creek Operations building. Unedited news film runs for 5 minutes and 14 seconds. A 21MB MPEG4 file. See more of the Prime Minister’s visit here. Both clips courtesy of the ABC. |
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Shutdown of the old Honeysuckle antenna –
However, as was announced during the Apollo 11 40th anniversary celebrations in July 2009, the plan is for the antenna itself to be preserved. It will remain 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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