Official guests included –

The Rt Hon. Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia
Dr. Robert Seamans, Deputy Administrator of NASA
Edmond C. Buckley, Associate Administrator of NASA
Tecwyn Roberts, Head of the Manned Flight Operations Division at the Goddard Space Flight Center
John South, Goddard’s Representative to Australia
Christopher Kraft, Assistant Director for Flight Operations
Willson Hunter, NASA’s Senior Scientific Representative in Australia

as well as

Senator Denham Henty, Australian Minister of State for Supply
Lloyd Bott DCS CBE, Deputy Secretary of the Department of Supply
Sir Samuel Jones, Managing Director of Standard Telephones and Cables (Australasia) Pty Ltd.

About to go up in the station cherrypicker, left to right:

Edmond C. Buckley, NASA Associate Administrator; Unidentified (can anyone help? He seesm to be controlling the cherrypicker for guests); Christopher C. Kraft, Jr. (with his trademark cigar); Alan Cooley, Secretary of the Department of Supply; and Willson H. Hunter, NASA Senior Scientific Representative to Australia.

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Photso by Hamish Lindsay. Medium format negative scans by Colin Mackellar.

With thanks to Craig Lindsay for forwarding the negative and those of the other photos on this page.

“In 1967, following the tragic Apollo 1 fire, Tecwyn Roberts and I had the priviledge of spending 17 days travelling around Australia to visit all of the stations preparing to participate in the Apollo Program.

We met and talked to every one of the wonderful engineers, technicians and other supporters who were to be involved. It was one of the greatest experiences of my life.”

“They are wonderful and reminded me of the day we spent there with friends we made while visiting Australia in March of 1967.
An awful lot of adventures have transpired since then.

Tec Roberts was without question one of my closest associates and I had such a great time when we were there.

Edmond Buckley was a wonderful NACA/NASA associate. He deserves the NASA credit for building the World Wide Network.

Bob Seamans, the Deputy Administrator of  NASA and a tremendous contributor to NASA was among my closest friends and a major contributor to the success of NASA in that time period.

All of those people have passed away but it is very nice to recall their contributions to our accomplishments in that time.

We were indeed fortunate to live in the ‘Age of Aquarius.’”

Willson H. Hunter waves to onlookers as the cherrypicker is about to ascend.

Photo by Hamish Lindsay. Scan by Colin Mackellar.

NASA Deputy Administrator Dr Robert Seamans, right, with his wife, Eugenia.

Australian Senator Denham Henty, Minister for Supply, is mostly hidden behind Mrs Seamans.

On the left is Mrs Faith Henty.

Photo by Hamish Lindsay. Scan by Colin Mackellar.

NASA Deputy Administrator Dr Robert Seamans, right, with his wife Eugenia.

Australian Senator Denham Henty, Minister for Supply, is behind Mrs Seamans. On the left is Mrs Faith Henty.

Photo by Hamish Lindsay. Scan by Colin Mackellar.

Dr Robert Seamans farewells the Prime Minister, Harold Holt (obscured by his chauffeur).

From left: Ed Buckley, Alan Cooley, Faith and Denham Henty, Eugenia Seamans stand outside one of the marquees erected adjacent to the Operations Building.

Photo by Hamish Lindsay. Scan by Colin Mackellar.

The Prime Minister’s Bentley is escorted through the car park.

On the right appears to be Lloyd Bott, Deputy Secretary to the Department of Supply.

Photo by Hamish Lindsay. Scan by Colin Mackellar.

An invitation to the Offical Opening.

With thanks to Hamish Lindsay.