Martin
Geasleys photos of the opening
of Honeysuckle Creek - 17th March 1967
Click on each picture for the full size version.
With thanks to Martin Geasley.
![Click on thumbnail to enlarge MG01a_Ginette_and_Liz.jpg](tn/MG01a_Ginette_and_Liz.jpg)
Ginette Geasley and Liz Lee chat while waiting for the proceedings to
start. (Betty Saxon is facing the camera.)
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Waiting for the ceremony to start.
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Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt arrives in his Bentley. The PMs
Press Secretary, Tony Eggleton, is in the front seat.
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Dr. Robert Seamans, Associate Administrator of NASA, waits to welcome
the Prime Minister
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Prime Minister Harold Holt and his wife, Dame Zara, walk up the hill towards
the antenna.
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Introductions.
Senator Denham Henty (Minister for Supply) stands behind the Prime Minister,
facing the camera.
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Station Director Bryan Lowe (back to camera) and Dr. Robert Seamans
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The Duntroon Military Band plays
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The band plays as the invited guests wait for proceedings to start.
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Prime Minister Harold Holt speaks.
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Dr Seamans presents the Prime Minister with a model of the Apollo spacecraft.
(Hamish Lindsay is standing at right.)
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The crowd is dwarfed by the 85 foot antenna.
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Christopher Kraft Jr, Assistant Director for Flight Operations
and later Apollo Flight Director (facing camera) and Willson Hunter, NASA
Senior Scientific Representative to Australia (back to camera) on the
cherrypicker.
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John Saxon films the ride in the cherrypicker with his Super 8 movie camera.
Ginette Geasley is in the middle and Betty Saxon at left. |
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Up they go!
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There they are, in the cherrypicker at full extension.
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The Marquees erected for the luncheon.
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Ginette Geasley.
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The Lees (left) chat with the Westbrooks.
Gemini X is in the background.
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John and Betty Saxon.
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The Gemini X capsule on display
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The Honeysuckle Antenna at stow.
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