Remembering Apollo 14, February 1971.

Ed von Renouard at the Honeysuckle Creek video console in its Apollo 14 configuration.

Honeysuckle Creek, November 1970.

August 1964, two RAAF Bell Huey helicopters head out from Tidbinbilla searching for a suitable site to build the Apollo station. The next year the site selection team settled on what is now known as Honeysuckle Creek. Photo: Dick Collins.

Preparing for Apollo – Essay by Hamish Lindsay.

Photo: Honeysuckle Station Director Tom Reid and Goddard Simulation Team Leader George Harris on 29 September 1967.

Hamish Lindsay took this Polaroid photo at 10:35pm on Friday 30 July 1971, during Apollo 15’s live television broadcast on lunar orbit 8.

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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.

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

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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 (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.