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The Honeysuckle Creek workers’ construction camp in May 1966. It’s in roughly the same spot as the current Honeysuckle Campsite. The Ops building would be 90° to the left of the camera. Photo: Waren Kain.

Image from the 2026 Honeysuckle and NASA Networks (completely unofficial) Calendar on my personal website.

1960 – 23 May – DSIF 41 is under construction at Island Lagoon, south of Woomera. (More on construction to come.).

1961 – May – Parkes Radio Telescope under construction.

1962 – 24 May – Aeromedical Monitors Sq. Ldr. Warren J. Bishop, RAAF (foreground) and Lt. Comdr. Frank N. Austin, USN at Muchea during Scott Carpenter’s flight, Aurora 7 (MA-7)

1963 – 14 May – Muchea team prepare for Gordon Cooper’s flight on MA-9. L-R: Warren Bishop, Chuck Lewis, Don Anderson, Hal Stenfors.

1964 – 06 May – Tidbinbilla under construction – from Larry’s Hill. Preserved by Rudi Langeveld. Scan: Colin Mackellar.

This photo will be added to the forthcoming section on Tidbinbilla’s site development.

1964 – 24 May – Rocky Crossing on the Gudgenby River being built for access to Orroral Valley. Scan: Colin Mackellar from the Tidbinbilla archives.

1965 – 14 May – DSS41 Island Lagoon team at JPL receiving Quality Assurance Certification Cards as part of the checkout and acceptance of the L/S-Band conversion at Woomera.

1966 – early May – Honeysuckle’s Ken Lee took this photo of the very early stages of the erection of the 26-metre USB antenna before he left for familiarisation at Carnarvon.

1966 – May – Honeysuckle’s Ken Lee took this photo of the newly-installed Apollo consoles at Carnarvon.

1966 – late May – Aerial view of Honeysuckle under construction.

1967 – 08 May – Image of Australia taken from ATS-2.

1967 – May – Lockheed C-121A Connie BATAAN of the Goddard Simulation fleet, at Friendship Airport, Baltimore, Maryland. Photo: Bob Burns. Learn more in Goddard News May 01 1967.

1967 – May – ARIA/A-LOTS 327, Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California.

1968 – 02 May – Honeysuckle antenna at stow.

1968 – early May – Station Directors and Deputy Station Directors are photographed in the Mission Operations Control Room in Houston following a meeting at the Goddard Space Flight Center.

1968 – May – Hamish Lindsay took this photo of Honeysuckle Deputy Director Mike Dinn, now back at Honeysuckle Ceeek.

1969 – May – Martin Geasley (standing) and John Saxon at the Honeysuckle Operations Console.

1969 – 25 May – Apollo 10 dress rehearsal for the Moon.
Photo: Tom Stafford during Apollo 10’s TEC is seen on a TV monitor at Honeysuckle Creek.

1970 – 8 May – Members of the ELDO Council hear from Deputy Station Directorn Ian Grant, right, during a visit to Honeysuckle Creek.

1970 – May – Hamish Lindsay took this portrait of Don Gray who had just moved from Tidbinbilla to be StaDir at Honeysuckle Creek.

1970 – 25 May – ARIA and TRIA at Patrick Air Force Base, Florida.

1971 – 03 May – MSFN Technical Information Bulletin Volume 8, No. 7.

The TIBs were published by the Goddard Space Flight Center’s Manned Flight Operations Division for Network personnel. Those already online can be found here.

1972 – 02 May – Apollo 13 astronaut Jack Swigert visits Honeysuckle.

1973 – 03 May – Apollo 17 Astronaut Harrison Schmitt visits Honeysuckle Creek and signs the master signature sheet.

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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.