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Title: Honeysuckle Creek: The story of Tom Reid, a little dish & Neil Armstrong’s first step
Author: TINK ANDREW
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/11/2018
Imprint: NEW SOUTH WALES UNI PRESS
Price: $35.00
Publishing status: Active
Honeysuckle Creek reveals the pivotal role that the tracking station at Honeysuckle Creek, near Canberra, played in the first moon landing. Andrew Tink gives a gripping account of the role of its director Tom Reid and his colleagues in transmitting some of the most-watched images in human history as Neil Armstrong took his first step.
Part biography and part personal history, this book makes a significant contribution to Australia’s role in space exploration and reveals a story little known until now.
As Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr, the director of flight operations for Apollo 11, acknowledged: ‘The name Honeysuckle Creek and the excellence which is implied by that name will always be remembered and recorded in the annals of manned space flight’.
ISBN: 9781742236087
Dimension: 234mm X 153mm