In this 1965 NASA photograph, Carnarvon space trackers Jack Stewart, Colin Death and Frank McRae hold the reins of “St. Mondray”, the racehorse they bought with Wilson Tuckey (Shire President and publican of Tuckey’s Port Hotel – at right).

Image from the 2025 Honeysuckle and NASA Networks (completely unofficial) Calendar on my personal website.

Congratulations to Mike Dinn and John Saxon
who have each been awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2025 Australia Day Honours.

Details of the awards can be seen here for Mike and John.

Photo: Mike and John share the story of Honeysuckle Creek and Tidbinbilla for The Canberra Times. Photo: Peter Dinn.

John and Mike at the Honeysuckle Creek Operations console in early April 1970, during pre-mission simulations for Apollo 13. (The photo was the inspiration for this commemorative coin issued for the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11.)

Photo most likely by Hamish Lindsay, scanned by John Saxon.
Image cleanup by Colin Mackellar.

The Royal Australian Mint in Canberra produced this video to display at their Australia in Space Exhibition in 2024.

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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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.