Honeysuckle Creek reveals the pivotal role that the tracking station at Honeysuckle Creek, near Canberra, played in the first moon landing.
Andrew Tink gives a gripping account of the role of its director Tom Reid and his colleagues in transmitting some of the most-watched images in human history as Neil Armstrong took his first step.
Part biography and part personal history, this book makes a significant contribution to Australia’s role in space exploration and reveals a story little known until now.
As Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr, the director of flight operations for Apollo 11, acknowledged:
‘The name Honeysuckle Creek and the excellence which is implied by that name will always be remembered and recorded in the annals of manned space flight’.
- ISBN:
- 9781742236087
- 9781742236087
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Category:
- Popular astronomy & space
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
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01-11-2018
- Publisher:
- NewSouth Publishing
- Country of origin:
- Australia
- Pages:
- 272
- Dimensions (mm):
- 234x153mm
'A wonderful and inspirational story, beautifully told. As hard as it is to do this extraordinary yarn justice, Andrew Tink has done it.' Peter FitzSimons
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