At left, Bruce Cameron monitors Honeysuckle Creek’s Power Amplifier panels. Len Litherland (centre) and Eric Gadd man the Receiver-Exciters. Photo: Hamish Lindsay, 15th February 1967.

Image from the 2025 Honeysuckle and NASA Networks (completely unofficial) Calendar on my personal website.

Download your own “print at home” 2026 Honeysuckle and NASA Networks (completely unofficial) Calendar from my personal website..

Mike Dinn awarded Honorary Degree of Doctor of Engineering.

Apollo 8 – short video made for the 55th anniversary.

This 9 minute video tribute to all the Australian manned space trackers was shown at the gathering in Canberra on 08 December 2022.

Ernest (Ned) Kelly at the original Woomera 108MHz Minitrack in 1961. Interview recorded in 2014.

Kevyn Westbrook – Muchea, Carnarvon, Deakin NASCOM– interviewed by Hamish Lindsay in 1994. Fascinating.

Tuesday 02 December 1969 – DSS43 groundbreaking at Tidbinbilla.

DSS42 (left) and DSS43 at Tidbinbilla in December 1975.

Honeysuckle Creek USB antenna and Venus, at dawn, December 1975.

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A 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.

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In 2019, the Royal Australian Mint Moon Landing Coins commemorated the Moon landing.

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Australian Prime Minister John Gorton visits Honeysuckle Creek on the day of the Moon Landing, Monday 21 July 1969. Silent film runs for 4'02" – a 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.