A
Tribute to the men and women of
Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station, Canberra,
Australia
the wider Australian involvement
in manned and unmanned space exploration, and more!
Updated 19 March 2024. | News & Events 19 March 2024. |
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Remeberring Tidbinbilla’s Opening Day, 19 March 1965. Also see the Opening Day page. |
Remembering Honeysuckle Creek’s Opening Day, 17 March 1967. Click here for a full screen version. Photos by Hamish Lindsay, Bruce Withey, Martin Geasley (scanned by Bec Bigg-Wither), Ron Hicks, Danny Twomey, John Saxon, The Australian News and Information Service, Australian Department of Supply, Walkabout Magazine, Goddard News. Also see the Opening Day section. See also: |
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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. |
Both clips courtesy of the ABC. See more of the Prime Minister’s visit here. |
One Small Step: The Australian Story |
Watch “One Small Step: The Australian Story”, produced by Freehand TV in Sydney for the BBC, for the 40th anniversary in 2009. (If you’ve seen the much-loved Australian comedy “The Dish”, |
The Honeysuckle antenna today The old Honeysuckle antenna was used for its last official track in January 2010. And here’s a tribute page of photos on the occasion of the shutdown. |
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