Honeysuckle Creek
Subtitle: The Story of Tom Reid, a Little Dish and Neil Armstrong's First Step
Publisher: NewSouth
Published: Feb 01, 2019
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781742236087
Description: 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'.
Notes: Source title: Honeysuckle Creek: The Story of Tom Reid, a Little Dish and Neil Armstrong's First Step