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Rosman Tracking Station, Transylvania County, North Carolina.

August 1967 photo by Peter Pistoor. (Click for a panorama, assembled from three transparencies.)

Above is the image is for October in the 2026 Honeysuckle and NASA Networks (completely unofficial) Calendar on my personal website.

1961 – Sixty five years ago: The Parkes Radio Telescope opens
– October 31 1961.

1976 – fifty years ago – DSS42 and 43 Tidbinbilla Viking Shift Team members pose in this 14 October photo by Hamish Lindsay.

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A message from Christopher Kraft, 14 March 1974, on the occasion of Honeysuckle leaving the Manned Space Flight Network.

Honeysuckle Creek
The story of Tom Reid, a little dish, and Neil Armstrong’s First Step – by Andrew Tink, 2019.

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In 2019, the Royal Australian Mint Moon Landing Coins commemorated the Moon landing.

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Australian Prime Minister John Gorton visits Honeysuckle Creek on the day of the Moon Landing, Monday 21 July 1969. Silent film runs for 4'02" – a 14MB MPEG4 file.

The Prime Minister after his tour inside Honeysuckle’s Operations building. Unedited news film runs for 5'14" – a 21MB MPEG4 file.

The Honeysuckle antenna today

The old Honeysuckle antenna was used for its last official track in January 2010.

DSS46 photos.

And here’s a tribute page of photos on the occasion of the shutdown.