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 02 March 2021. | News & Jottings 02 January 2021. |
Featured: March 2021.
(More featured items coming this month. Do check back.)
Apollo 9 52nd anniversary. |
What was happening in the MSFN 50 years ago |
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Royal Australian Mint Moon Landing Coins commemorate 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 (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 Australian comedy “The Dish”, |
The Honeysuckle antenna today
And here’s a tribute page of photos on the occasion of the shutdown. |
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