The Project ANNA Telemetry Station, adjacent to Emery Point Lighthouse, Darwin, 1964.

Situated at the western end of the Larrakeyah Barracks, the ANNA telemetry van was several hundred metres from the larger OGO Telemetry site which was established about the same time.

Image from the 2024 Honeysuckle and NASA Networks (completely unofficial) Calendar on my personal website.

Download The Completely Unofficial 2025 Honeysuckle and NASA Networks Calendar from my personal website.

Mike Dinn remembers Apollo 8.

External link to Vimeo. Video recorded 05 December 2023.

Apollo 8 – short video made for the 55th anniversary in 2023.

Apollo 8 Audio Highlights – recorded at Honeysuckle Creek.

Apollo 8 Recollections from space trackers.

Astronaut Harrison Schmitt reads a Christmas poem to Apollo 8.

This 9 minute video tribute to all the Australian manned space trackers was shown at the gathering in Canberra on 08 December 2022.

Featured interview: Honeysuckle’s Kevin Gallegos remembers being in “the hot seat” during the Apollo 11 Moonwalk.

“We punched above our weight.”

(21 minutes, 7.4MB mp3 file. Recorded July 2009.)

Photo: At Tidbinbilla on 20 July 2019, Kevin points to himself in the post-Apollo-11 Honeysuckle team photo.

On 03 December 2024, former Honeysuckle Deputy Director Mike Dinn was invited to speak following a screening of the movie “The Dish” at the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra. Glen Nagle from CDSCC was with Mike and assisted with visuals. On Vimeo.

Related: Mike’s ‘The Truth about The Dish’, originally written in October 2000.

Tidings of Comfort and Joy
Carols for HSK / HSKX.

Laurie Turner, Christmas 1972.

Carols at Honeysuckle Creek at the end of Apollo 17.
(A page for Bernard in the Space People section is coming soon.)

Fun image:

Soviet cosmonaut Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev poses with a Westinghouse Slow-Scan Lunar TV Camera mockup. The caption on the back of the print reads:

“COSMONAUT VISIT. Major General Andrian G. Nikolayev, Russian cosmonaut, poses at a designated photo site connected with the Westinghouse exhibit on display during the Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Astro-hall in Houston. Chris Sevier of Westinghouse adds to the scenery.”

Major General Nikolayev was the third Russian in space onboard Vostok 3. At the time of this photo, he was married to the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova.

NASA image S-70-51855, from the collection of Stan Lebar, Westinghouse Program Manager for Apollo Television Cameras.

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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, 2019.

Click for more about the book.

Royal Australian Mint Moon Landing Coins commemorate the Moon landing. 2019.

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 (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.