Hamish Lindsay took this photo of Honeysuckle’s 26-metre dish, looking down from the apex of the quadripod.

John Hart with the theodolite is at centre. Tony Salvage (white overalls) assists. The occasion is the Paraboloid Survey of the dish in preparation for joining the Deep Space Network – August 1974.

Image from the 2023 Honeysuckle and NASA Networks (unofficial) Calendar on my personal website.

Download the 2024 Honeysuckle and NASA Networks (unofficial) Calendar from my personal website.

Mike Dinn remembers Apollo 8.

External link to Vimeo. Video recorded 05 December 2023.

See the Apollo 8 section for the Apollo 8 story, including a special PDF version of Hamish Lindsay’s Apollo 8 Essay.

Apollo 8 Audio Highlights – recorded at Honeysuckle Creek.

Apollo 8 Onboard Audio – downlinked to Honeysuckle Creek.

Apollo 8 Recollections from space trackers.

Honeysuckle Creek tracks Apollo 8 on its first lunar orbit.

Photo by Hamish Lindsay, around 9:00pm AEST, Christmas Eve 1968.
Scan by Colin Mackellar.

Tributes to Ken Mattingly and Frank Borman

Apollo 17 Astronaut Dr. Harrison Schmitt has recently published tributes to Frank Borman (Apollo 8 Commander) and Ken Mattingly (Apollo 8 Capcom, and Apollo 16 CMP). Click the links to see them on his website, americasuncommonsense.com.

Gemini Program audio recorded at Carnarvon Tracking Station.

Site launched 14 December 2003.
Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed so wonderfully to help preserve the history of Honeysuckle Creek, the other tracking stations, and others involved in the missions.

(Photo by Hamish Lindsay.)

Still plenty to add to the website, so please stay tuned!

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Preparing for Apollo, Goddard Sims, Station Readiness Tests,

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Missions Supported by Other Stations
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Gemini: Gemini 3, Gemini 4, Gemini 5, Gemini 12.
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Message from Christopher Kraft, 14 March 1974, on the occasion of Honeysuckle leaving the Manned Space Flight Network.

Honeysuckle Creek
The story of Tom Reid, a little dish, and Neil Armstrong’s First Step – by Andrew Tink, 2019.

Click for more about the book.

Royal Australian Mint Moon Landing Coins commemorate the Moon landing. 2019.

Click for more about the coins.

Australian Prime Minister John Gorton visits Honeysuckle Creek on the day of the Moon Landing, Monday 21 July 1969. 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.

The Honeysuckle antenna today

The old Honeysuckle antenna was used for its last official track in January 2010.

DSS46 photos.

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