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We also understand that entry to the Honeysuckle Creek site on Saturday 20 July is by invitation, due to constraints outside the Committee’s control.

As the Apollo 11 50th anniversary approaches, here’s a vector version of the mission patch. Scalable to any size, it could be useful for designing banners – or for projecting onto the side of the VAB. :-)

Click each image for a 700kb PDF file. These were designed for the celebrations in Canberra. You are very welcome to use either. Credit or a link back here would be appreciated.

Technical Information Bulletin, Vol. 6, No. 10, 25 June 1969.

“Two revolutions of the Moon have been added to the flight plan for the Apollo 11 mission to improve communications during critical maneuvers and to allow more time for decontamination of equipment exposed to the lunar environment.”

The TIBs were published by the Goddard Space Flight Center’s Manned Flight Operations Division for Network personnel. Those already online can be found here.

DSN Operations Manager Richard Mallis is remembered as a pioneer of the Deep Space Network. Richard died on 26th May. In this 2009 video interview, he spoke about the origins of the DSN.

Please also click here for a tribute.

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

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Royal Australian Mint Moon Landing Coins commemorate the Moon landing.

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Message from Christopher Kraft, 14 March 1974, on the occasion of Honeysuckle leaving the Manned Space Flight Network.

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.