Cooby Creek site surveys and visits


 

Here are some photos showing surveying work and early visits to the Cooby Creek site.

 

Cooby Creek

ATS 143 The Party June 1965.

A high-powered meeting of Australian and NASA people at the site of Cooby Creek Tracking Station

Left to right:

1. Ian Homewood, Head of Projects Branch, Department of Supply Head Office,
2. Don Freeman, the first Station Director,
3. unknown,
4. Gerald M. Truszynski, Associate Administrator Office of Tracking and Data Acquisition, Goddard Space Flight Center,
5. unknown,
6. unknown.

(Can you help with the other names? Contact.)

Transparency from the Tidbinbilla archives. Scan: Colin Mackellar.


Cooby Creek

D103 RFI Survey, just off entrance road to site ATS site. September 1965.

Transparency from the Tidbinbilla archives. Scan: Colin Mackellar.


 

We’ll add more images when possible.