Honeysuckle Creek: The Story of Tom Reid, a Little Dish, and Neil Armstrong's First Step
Author(s): Andrew Tink
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 serious contribution to Australia's role in space exploration and reveals a story unknown 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'.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : NewSouth Publishing
- : NewSouth
- : 0.362874
- : 01 October 2018
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Special Fields
- : Andrew Tink
- : Paperback
- : 272