Honeysuckle VIP Visitors Book

Visitors Book


Mike Dinn scanned photocopies of a selection of entries from the Honeysuckle Creek VIP Visitors’ Book.

Click on each image to see the larger entry.

Click on the underlined text to see photos of the visit.

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06 January 1967MSFN Network Inspection Trip.
George Mueller
and team.


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09 September 1968 – Astronaut Alan Shepard and Eberhard Rees, Deputy Director of the Marshall Space Flight Center.


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12 January 1969 – George Mueller from NASA HQ returns to HSK.
With him are JPL Director W H Pickering and Astronaut Tom Stafford.


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05 May 1969 – Apollo 7 Astronaut Walt Cunningham.


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21 July 1969 – First manned lunar landing.

Click the image above to see a photo of the page.

Signatories:

John Gorton, Prime Minister of Australia
Alan Cooley, Secretary, Department of Supply
Lloyd Bott, Deputy Secretary, Department of Supply
Tony Eggleton, Prime Minister’s Press Secretary
Ainsley Gotto, Prime Minister’s Private Secretary
Willson Hunter, NASA Senior Scientific Representative to Australia.

John Gorton’s visit.


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25 February 1970 NASA Administrator Thomas Paine, and Walter L Rice, US Ambassador to Australia.


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23 March 1970 – Dr Rudolf Hermann, first Director of the Research Institute at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH).

Born in Leipzig in 1904, Dr. Hermann became was an aerodynamics expert. He was appointed Director of the Supersonic Wind Tunnel at Peenemunde in 1937. After the War, under Operation Paperclip, he became a consultant to the United States Army Air Forces at Wright Field, Ohio before moving to Huntsville. He and his wife, Maja, visited Honeysuckle Creek shortly before his retirement from UAH.


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30 April 1970 –?.


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08 May 1970 – Members of the ELDO Council.

ELDO was the European Launcher Development Organization and was hevaily involved at Woomera. ELDO later merged with ESRO to form the European Space Agency.


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20 April 1971 – Apollo Program Director General Sam Phillips.
22–23 April 1971Tom Sheehan (Houston Track) and Ken Mattocks (GSFC)


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02 May 1972 – Apollo 13 Astronaut Jack Swigert and US Ambassador to Australia Walter L Rice.


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09 November 1972 – Apollo 15 LMP Jim Irwin visits just before the last lunar flight.


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03 May 1973 – Apollo 17 LMP Harrison Schmitt.


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13 February 1974 – Frank Moss, US Senate.


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02 May 1974 – Apollo 9 CMP and Apollo 15 CDR David Scott.

 

 

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