John Lambie in the control room, at the Gemini Capcom position.

“I maintained the three cabinet mounted teletype RO machines. They were always giving trouble as they had sprocket feed paper and came off the platen at an acute angle. If they were pulled roughly they would jump the sprockets and jam. I spent quite some time during missions behind the cabinet withdrawing to reset the paper, until a fix was implemented.”

Note the diagram of the Gemini control dash layout above the console. “The centre section was between the two astronauts, left side is in front of Command Pilot and right side in front of Pilot.”

A general view of the Teletype room during the Gemini missions, showing Model 28 teletypes, equipment racks and cabinets with power supplies, loop switchboards, and line interface units.

Rate and Range Rate antenna.

USB receivers during Apollo days.

Telemetry racks.

Cabinet shelf of DCS system open showing colour coded circuit modules.

John Lambie testing teletype output signal waveform at the DCS.

The near-completed Apollo Control Room at Carnarvon.

Welcome to the North-West!
My MG Magnette at the 26th Parallel. Income tax concessions for those who worked north of this line.

The Carnarvon School Hostel
with teacher Miss Karin Krupa (later Mrs Karin Lambie).

John Nugent UNIVAC 1218 Engineer and Karin Krupa (later Mrs Karin Lambie) at a social event.

Cutting shell blocks at Hamelin Pool.

The saline water of Shark Bay has caused the specialisation of a small shell to accumulate over millions of years to form deep coastal dunes comprising of nothing but solid shell. Cutting shell blocks as building material had been done for many years and many old-timer buildings using shell walls still exist. This was the shell material carted in trucks and spread out on the ground on Woodleigh Station for the GT5 visual acuity tests.

A longer view of the Hamelin Pool Quarry.

I returned to Carnarvon April 1967 to conduct a two week training course on the model 28/M35 Teletype equipment. Examining a M28 typing reperforator. That’s me in the centre, Terry Creighton PMG technician on right. My replacement PMG Senior technician to the left.