Carnarvon Tracking Station, Western Australia


 

Entry to Carnarvon Tracking Station

The entrance to the NASA Carnarvon Tracking Station, in 1971.

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Photo: Tom Sheehan. Image restoration: Colin Mackellar.


In this section

Introduction to Carnarvon

Construction and opening – film footage

Views of the Station

Carnarvon maps and booklet

The 9 metre USB Apollo antenna

The FPQ-6 radar

CRO People

Stories:

1. Mrs O’Donahue saves the day
2.) Visual Acuity Experiment

Visitors

Memorabilia

Press clippings

Last days

Carnarvon Revisited – June 2012


Photo collections

from Hamish Lindsay

from Alan Gilham

from John Fletcher

from John Sharples

from John Lambie

from Frank Barrow

More photos

B&W photos of the site May 1966, January 1967



Entry to Carnarvon Tracking Station

The entrance to the NASA Carnarvon Tracking Station, c 1964.

This was taken before the gates in the photo above were added.
Photo: Hamish Lindsay.


Entry to Carnarvon Tracking Station

Here’s a new sign – in the same place as the old one – erected December 2011. And, in a link with the past, the original posts were still in place, so they have been used again.

Photograph by Phil Youd, edited by Terence Kierans.
Sign fabricated and donated by Carnarvon Steel Supplies of Cornish Street Carnarvon. Signwriting donated by W&K Painting of Egan Street, Carnarvon.

 


If you worked at Carnarvon and would like to contribute photos, information or stories,
I would be delighted to add them to this section. Contact.

For more on Carnarvon Tracking Station, see also –

CROtrak – by Terry Kierans.
Carnarvonspace.com – by Paul Dench & Alison Gregg.
Carnarvon Space and Technology Museum.