The Honeysuckle Creek team just after Apollo 11.

Carnarvon’s Paul Dench remembered.

Honeysuckle’s Gillian Schoenborn (nee Morris) with her lovely Textile artwork interpretation of the HSK site. The ghost of the antenna is done in fine silk with machine stitched detail. The “One Small Step” installation depicted in her artwork was unveiled on July 20th 2019.

Photo was taken in the Shepparton Textile Artists Inc Exhibition at Shepparton Art Museum in March. Here’s another photo.

In July 1969, ANU’s Dr. Stuart Ross Taylor performed the first chemical analysis of the lunar samples returned by Apollo 11. Hamish Lindsay interviewed him in 1994. Audio now available – in the Interviews section.

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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

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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.

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.