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Opening in March 1967, the Corpus Christi Apollo Tracking Station (TEXAS) was situated at the NE corner of the former Rodd Field Naval Auxiliary Air Station outside Corpus Christi, Texas. The site of the station is in what is now Bill Witt City Park and an adjacent housing estate.

Image from the 2026 Honeysuckle and NASA Networks (completely unofficial) Calendar on my personal website.

Resources for following the Artemis 2 mission –

• Artemis 2 Key Event list with Eastern Australian times

• Artemis 2 Sources to Watch and Read

• Updated Artemis II in Progress – Local Date and Time

– thanks to Glen Nagle.

As Artemis 2 begins its mission to loop around the Moon – the next step in returning to the lunar surface – Mike Dinn remembers the trailblazing Apollo 8 mission of December 1968.

External link to Vimeo. Video recorded 05 December 2023.

Hamish Lindsay’s photo of Honeysuckle Creek tracking Apollo 8 on its first time around the Moon reminds us that the station tracked the spacecraft as they entered lunar orbit.

See the Apollo 8 section for more.

Jeff Newnham – Tidbinbilla – in the Space People section.

Val Jeffery – Tharwa General Store – in the Space People section.

Ron Reavley at the opening of Honeysuckle Creek.

The Department of Communications’ Satellite Monitoring Station in Orroral Valley. In the Orroral section.

Technical Information Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 3, 05 April 1963.

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.

See the full collection of featured items at this link.

Also see some related (and some unrelated!) video at vimeo.com/honeysuckle.

Some of them are collected here.

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Missions Supported by Other Stations
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Gemini: Gemini 3, Gemini 4, Gemini 5, Gemini 12.
Mariner IV, Ranger, Lunar Orbiter, Surveyor, Pioneer, Viking, Voyager.

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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.

Click for more about the book.

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

Click for more about the coins.

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.