Martin Geasley at Honeysuckle, July 1969. From the HSK staff photo by Hamish Lindsay. Scan: Ken Sheridan.

Martin Geasley was hired in London by a recruiting team from Australia on behalf of Honeysuckle contractors Standard Telephones & Cables – Station Director Bryan Lowe and Hugh Peach, accompanied by a NASA group from the Goddard Space Flight Center.

Martin writes:

“My title was Ground Communications Coordinator in the Grade of Supertech.

In 1968 with the departure of Hugh Bergin, Comms Engineer in charge of Comms Section, I was elevated to Communications Supervisor in charge of the Comms Section.

On transfer to the DSN in 1975 I was reassigned to the position of Operations Supervisor until my resignation in October 1980 when I took up a new career in the Computer Industry as Manager of Test Operations with Amdahl Ireland Limited, at their factory in Swords, Co. Dublin, Ireland. I was subsequently transferred back to Australia as Manager Customer Services and Field Engineering Manager.

I retired on 29th January 1995 on my 65th Birthday.”

Martin notes that the recruiting team in 1966 also selected John Saxon and Eric Gadd, making them the only ones to be hired from the UK in 1966.