The Apollo 11 Honeysuckle Creek Staff Photo


Updated scans

(Most of) the team who brought you the video of Neil Armstrong’s first step.

Shortly after Apollo 11, apparently on Tuesday 12th August 1969, most of the Honeysuckle team assembled outside the Operations Building, with the antenna as backdrop.

Hamish Lindsay took three group photos, one colour and two black and white, using a Linhof Super Technika large format camera. (Such a camera could only hold one sheet of film at at time, so it would have taken a few moments to reload between exposures.)


1969 photo

Photo 1.

This has become the ‘official’ black and white photo.

Large, Larger (5.7MB).

2018 scan by Colin Mackellar from Hamish Lindsay’s 4x5 inch negative.


1969 photo

Photo 2.

Here’s a colour photo taken at the same time.

Large, Larger (7.4MB).

Updated 2022 scan by Colin Mackellar from Hamish Lindsay’s 4x5 inch negative.

1969 photo

Here’s a key to the photo, updated 13 April 2026, with the name of Brenda Scott. Hopefully, now we have everyone in the photo correctly identified!

JPEG version. PDF version.


HSK staff 1969 photo

Photo 3.

Unlike the ‘classic’ photos above, this one includes the entire Honeysuckle dish.

The perspective from closer to the Ops Building gives better vertical separation of the team members, though not everyone was ready for the photo! The slight blurring suggests this was a handheld photo.

Updated 2022 scan by Colin Mackellar from Hamish Lindsay’s 4x5 inch negative.


HSK staff 1969 photo

Detail from Photo 3 above.

Photo: Hamish Lindsay. Scan and enhancement: Colin Mackellar.

 

 

with John Saxon added in

And one more... This one has John Saxon “included” on the right – he missed out on being there for the actual photo. (Digital manipulation by Mike Dinn.)