The Honeysuckle Creek antenna in fog early one morning. Photo by Hamish Lindsay.

Image from the 2025 Honeysuckle and NASA Networks (completely unofficial) Calendar on my personal website.

Sixtieth anniversary of Gemini V: 21 – 29 August 1965.
Supported by Carnarvon.

Gemini V Essay by Hamish Lindsay.

Gemini V audio recorded at Carnarvon.

The Visual Acuity Experiment.

What was happening in the MSFN 62 years ago –

“…one of two Super Connies to be instrumented for Gemini support is now at Friendship International Airport, Baltimore, Maryland, being repainted and having equipment racks installed. It should be operational early in November of this year.”

– from page 2 of the MSFN Technical Information Bulletin, Volume 1, Number 13, August 16 1963.

Other TIB’s on this page. More on the Goddard Sims here.

NASA Remembers Gemini and Apollo Astronaut Jim Lovell.

Alan Foster, Lisa Jensen and Tony Jurd tracking Apollo 15 (26 July – 08 August 1971) on at 7:25pm on Friday 6th August 1971.

See the Apollo 15 section.

Last month we posted interviews by Darren Osborne of John Saxon and David Cook on their memories of Apollo 11 at Honeysuckle and Parkes.

Now Glen Nagle has transformed that audio file into a lovely video version, in memory of Darren. External link to YouTube.

See the full collection of featured items at this link.

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

Some of them are collected here.

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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.

Click for more about the book.

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

Click for more about the coins.

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.