Honeysuckle Creek : the story of Tom Reid, a little dish and Neil Armstrong's first step / Andrew Tink.
Publication details: Sydney, N.S.W. : NewSouth Publishing, 2018.Description: 264 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, photographs ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781742236087
- Reid, Thomas, 1927-2010
- Reid, Tom
- Reid, Thomas, 1927-2010
- Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station -- Management
- Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station
- Apollo 11 (Spacecraft)
- Project Apollo (U.S.)
- Project Apollo (U.S.)
- Apollo 11 (Spacecraft)
- Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station
- Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station -- Management
- Earth stations (Satellite telecommunication) -- Australia -- Australian Capital Territory
- Tracking (Engineering) -- Australia -- Australian Capital Territory
- Engineers -- Australia -- Australian Capital Territory -- Biography
- Earth stations (Satellite telecommunication)
- Engineers
- Space flight to the moon
- Tracking (Engineering)
- Astronautics -- Australia -- Communication systems -- History
- Electrical engineers -- Australia -- Biography
- Earth stations (Satellite telecommunication) -- Australian Capital Territory
- Earth stations (Satellite telecommunication) -- Australian Capital Territory -- Management
- Ground support systems (Astronautics) -- Australian Capital Territory
- Space flight to the moon
- Australian Capital Territory
- Moon -- Exploration -- History
- Moon -- Exploration
- Australian
- 629.457 23
- TL789.8.U6 A58258 2018
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 629.457 TIN | Available | 068834 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-255) and index.
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'.
