Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station

A Tribute to
Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station
Canberra, Australia
and all who worked there

Also see some related (and some unrelated!) video at vimeo.com/honeysuckle.


February 2012 Message from John Glenn, tracked by Australian stations 50 years ago this month, as he became the first American to circle the Earth. Previous featured photos.	Honeysuckle and Apollo 11 The Apollo 11 Mission. Apollo 11 TV. Selected audio recorded at HSK. Search for the Apollo 11 TV tapes.

A beautiful setting Website by Colin Mackellar – photo taken 09 October 1971.	The Honeysuckle Creek DVDs Includes Ed von Renouard’s Super 8 movies taken during Apollos 11, 16 and 17.

The Apollo 11 40th anniversary gathering.


Australian Prime Minister John Gorton at Honeysuckle Creek on Monday 21 July 1969. About 3 hours after the Apollo 11 landing, and 4 hours before the First Step. Silent film (14MB MPEG4 file).	John Gorton reads a statement after his tour inside Honeysuckle’s Operations building. Unedited news film runs for 5'14". A 21MB MPEG4 file. See more of the Prime Minister’s visit here.
Both clips courtesy of the ABC.

The old Honeysuckle antenna today

The old Honeysuckle antenna was used for the last time in January 2010, however the plan is for the antenna itself to be preserved. It will remain in place at Tidbinbilla as a fitting monument to its history and to the men and women who were a part of that history.

DSS46 photos. And here’s a tribute page of photos on the occasion of the shutdown.

Apollo 11 40th logo

Updated Apollo logo

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