Honeysuckle People

Some great photos taken at Honeysuckle – posted by Nevil Eyre. (And some he took at Cooby Creek.)

See also other sites run by Honeysuckle people – including

– Mike Dinn’s Apollo Memorabilia

– Mike Dinn’s The Truth about “The Dish”

– John Saxon’s Honeysuckle pages

– Eric Gill’s pages

The Honeysuckle Creek Mailing List – run by John Saxon.
“for people who worked at the Honeysuckle Creek Tracking station during is working life from 1966 to 1981 – and their friends.”

Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex – home of the old Honeysuckle antenna, DSS-46

Deep Space Network – The Apollo Program and the Deep Space Network

Review of The Dish – by Bill Wood, ex-Goldstone

Treaty between Australia and USA relating to Honeysuckle and other tracking stations (1970 treaty linked)

The Space Show – 11th November 2003 with Mike Dinn and John Saxon. Listen in Windows Media Player format (about 18Mb) – about 80 minutes.

The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal from Eric M. Jones – excellent – the Apollo lunar surface resource.

The Apollo Archive – by Kipp Teague. The best place for Apollo images.

The Apollo Flight Journal – by David Woods with Frank O’Brien, Tim Brandt and Lennie Waugh.

Deep Space Network – History with links to picture albums

Saturn 5 Audio Archive – get a CD of an amazing audio recording of the Apollo 11 Saturn V launch. (Perhaps the closest anyone today will get to hearing a Saturn V launch – Recommended!).

Conversations With Apollo – a new series of interviews with Apollo-related people, produced by James deRuvo.

Goldstone, California

Goldstone Apollo Station 1975 – 1999
links to photos taken at Goldstone by Greg Szekeres, Bill Wood and Reid Drummond.

Bendix Field Engineering memorial page

Madrid Apollo Tracking Station, Fresnedillas, Spain

Photos of Fresnedillas from a variety of sources (including some from this website) on the INSA website.

Carnarvon Tracking Station, West Australia

CROTrack – A new website dedicated to Carnarvon – being developed by Terry Keirans.

Carnarvonspace.com – A new website dedicated to Carnarvon MSFN and also Carnarvon OTC – being developed by Paul Dench & Alison Gregg.

Orroral Valley Tracking Station (STADAN) – ACT, Australia

The Orroral Valley Tracking Station commemorative CD.

and also on the VK1 DSN (Tidbinbilla) website.

Bermuda Tracking Station

A new website devoted to the NASA tracking stations in Bermuda.

Canton Island Tracking Station

See “Easy Days on Canton Island” by Marv Miller.

Quito, Ecuador, Tracking Station

See “A Return to NASA Quito” – on the former Cotopaxi station – by Mar Miller.

Apollo Range Instruments Aircraft

flyARIA.com – The Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircraft History and ARIA 328 Memorial Web Site

Museums, etc.

The Space Walk of Fame – Commemorative walk and museum in Titusville, Florida

TV from the Moon

Shooting the Apollo Moonwalks – A recollection of how it was done
by Sam Russell – dealing mainly with Apollo 15 lunar surface TV.

Jamesburg Satellite Earth Station

The Jamesburg Earth Station, just south of San Francisco, relayed the Apollo 11 Lunar TV coming from Honeysuckle and Parkes (via Sydney and the Moree Earth Station) to Houston and US viewers. The Earth Station closed in 2002, but has now been re-opened by a group of Amateur Radio Operators.

Jamesburg Earth Station volunteer group

Cooby Creek Tracking Station

The Cooby Cracking Station, near Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, was a key NASA station in the development of satellite television. See this new website by Kieran O’Carroll.

Cooby Creek Tracking Station