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The above is the image is for September in the 2026 Honeysuckle and NASA Networks (completely unofficial) Calendar on my personal website.

Carnarvon space tracker Tito Teraci holds a little joey in this 1965 picture. On the Life in Carnarvon page.

Glen Nagle has created a wonderful 88-page booklet of Hamish Lindsay’s Voyager 1 essay. Here it is for the 49th anniversary of the launch of Voyager 1 on 05 September 1977.

Click the image for a 12.3MB PDF file.

Lew Cottrell – Orroral Valley – in the Space people section.

Pete Peterson – Carnarvon – in the Space people section.

1963 – Carnarvon’s Telemetry and Control Building seems externally complete although the Acquisition Aids and VERLORT Radar have not yet been installed. The large Quonset hut used during construction is still adjacent to the T&C building.

Transparency from the Tidbinbilla archives. Scan: Colin Mackellar.

1964 – WRE Facilities’ boss Lance Sharp sits on a tree stump (“The Apollo Armchair”) during a survey of the Honeysuckle Creek site in September 1964. Note the wattle tree in full flower at the centre-left of the picture.

1965 – Radio Frequency interference tests are carried out just off entrance road to the proposed Cooby Creek site.

1966 – Douglas Aircraft in Tulsa Oklahoma, September 1966.

The ARIA Flight Test Group poses in front of ARIA 372, the first C-135A aircraft to be converted into an EC-135N ARIA for the Apollo Program. Photo thanks to Gary Roland (standing, third from left).

In the ARIA section.

1967 – 29 September , Station Director Tom Reid watches as Goddard Simulation team leader George Harris is farewelled by the station mascot. Read more in Hamish Lindsay’s essay in Preparing for Apollo.

1969 – Thousands visit Canberra’s Monaaro Mall for an Apollo exhibition July 14-26. Here they admire the Saturn V model made by Honeysuckle’s Wally Smallwood.

1973 – Hear Helen Garriott’s prank tape played from Skylab 3 on 10th September 1973. In the Skylab section.

The beginning of a page on NASA Network Aids – in The Big Picture section.

John Flaxman and John Weatherley in front of Hughes equipment at Tidbinbilla during the Surveyor years.

Photo Les Whaley. 2026 35mm re-scan by Colin Mackellar.

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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.