For the Apollo 11 40th anniversary in 2009, ABC Science journalist Darren Osborne created a 10-minute audio podcast featuring Honeysuckle’s John Saxon and Parkes’ David Cooke.

It’s a lovely summary of their memories of the mission.

Previously running the Visitors Centre at Tidbinbilla, Darren was a greatly respected Science journalist at the ABC in Sydney.

He was also an avid geocacher, and combined his love of geocaching and his love of space exploration in this segment he made for his pioneering geogaching podcast GeoTalk.

Listen Here: 4.7MB mp3 file. 7.4MB m4a file. Your browser may (or may not!) play an accompanying slideshow. (It also works with some flavours of Quicktime Player.) Darren illustrated the audio photos from the Honeysuckle website and from John Sarkissian at Parkes. With thanks to, and in memory of, Darren Osborne. (David Cooke on left – photo by John Sarkissian, John Saxon on right – photo by Colin Mackellar. Both in Canberra for an Apollo reunion, March 2006.)

Darren Osborne (1971-2015) in 2009. Photo courtesy ABC-TV.