The Staff of Muchea Tracking Station – January 1961.

See below for names.

With thanks to Jack Duperouzel. Scan by Colin Mackellar.

The Staff of Muchea Tracking Station – January 1961.

1. Gerry O’Connor – Comm Tech (ex-RAAF)
2. Gordon McDonald – Telemetry (ex-RAAF)
3. ? (a Uni student hired to help with cataloguing the equipment spare parts stores.)
4. Jack Duperouzel – Acquisition Team (ex-RAN Fleet Air Arm)
5. Len Moyle – Telemetry (ex-RAN)
6. Frank Dawson – Station Director
7. Jack Walker – Leader, Acquisition Team
8. Gus Pugh
9. ?
10. Mary ? – the TTY operator.
11. Kevyn Westbrook – Communications Supervisor (ex-PMG)
12. John Lamborn (ex-PMG)
13. Rex Hogan – ? recording
14. Ken Lee – Verlort Radar Supervisor (ex-RN Fleet Air Arm)
15. Colin Macnish – Timing (ex-RAN)
16. Solon Mathews – Telemetry Engineer in Charge
17. ? (Logistics Officer)
18. Don Blackman – Velort Radar Tech
19. Lewis Wainwright – Senior Engineer (and later Station Director)
20. ? (Power house operator)
21. ? (a Uni student hired to help with cataloguing the equipment spare parts stores.)
22. Bill Sheehan – in charge of the Powerhouse

With thanks to Jack Duperouzel, Kevyn Westbrook, Hamish Lindsay and Bill Kempees for help with the names.

(Any more info would be appreciated.)

The Staff of Muchea Tracking Station – January 1961.

Here’s another photo, taken at the same time.

(Can anyone help identify the people in this photo who are not in the top one? Contact.)

Thanks to Kate Chamberlain. Larger, Largest.

The Staff of Muchea Tracking Station, with the visiting NASA Flight Controllers, for the flight of John Glenn – 20 February 1962.

This photo was taken on the day of John Glenn’s Mercury MA-6 /Friendship 7 orbital flight (which launched in the evening, Perth time). Muchea was the only command station outside the US.

See below for names.

And here is an enhanced version.

With thanks to Jack Duperouzel. Scan by Colin Mackellar.

The above photo with a key for names.

With thanks to Jack Duperouzel, Hamish Lindsay, Nola Wilson (nee Chamberlain), Glenis Austin (nee Wilkerson) and Gene Kranz for help with the names.

Thanks to Jim Shaw for Antonius Van Overbeek’s name.

Updated 12 November 2021:

I have previously Identified 30 as Stan Faber, and 26 as L White, but have updated that on the basis of this 22 February 1962 photo and caption in The West Australian. From the scrapbook belonging to Dr. Warren Bishop. With thanks to Hamish Lindsay. Scanned by Colin Mackellar.

Any more info would be appreciated.